When you’re a book collector, you always want a “first”, i.e. first edition, first printing. But when the publisher has “a first printing of 10.8 million copies” does that really allow the “first” to be worth anything? The first rule of collecting (anything) is scarcity. So, if there’s a second printing of (only) 500,000 copies, and therefore more scarce, does that make the second printing more valuable?
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Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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