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$1,400 to buy it in book form. That may be part of the reason it's not being printed anymore.

• sev 15y ago
  32 volumes x ~$45 a piece. Seems to make sense. They're hard cover and very beautiful, can be used as a decorative piece as well.
  • baddox 15y ago
    The cost of a 2 million dollar yacht may also be justified, but that still explains why not more than a few thousand are sold a year.
    • Domenic_S 15y ago
      Low sales isn't interesting in itself -- the Golden Ring of retail is a low volume/immense markup business. 244 years of history should also hint at the fact that pricing isn't the issue.
      • corin_ 15y ago
        No, it simply hints that pricing wasn't always an issue, not that it isn't an issue. The quick way to find out is - if they could make a good profit selling the entire set for $x where $x < $current, would they still be doing it? The answer is yes. The reason the price used to work and doesn't now is that digital equivilents are not only (subjectively) better/easier/etc. - they're also cheaper.
• edwardy20 15y ago
  I wonder if selling the most popular Wikipedia articles in printed form for around $100 would have a market.
  • troymc 15y ago
    It's already being done. I stumble across books like that in Amazon from time to time. The reviews usually give it away.
  • vidarh 15y ago
    Search for wikipedia on amazon, and restrict the search to paperback books, and click past the first page or two, and you get an endless stream of books composed of Wikipedia entries.