Voyage Homecoming books Expensive?

[dispatcher812]

I was on amazon.com today trying to find a book top read before Losing the Peace comes out, since simonsays.com has nothing yet. I searched for voyager books. I found Homecoming new for $122 and used starting from $29.95 all the way to $121. WHAT IS UP WITH THAT? Why so expensive?

 

[Karnbeln]

Wow.

Try the public library. There's a pretty good chance they'll have them since they comprise pretty much the whole of Voyager work since Endgame aired. That's how I read them.

 

[Paris]

You can also try ebay. That's where I found the majority of my collection over the last 6 months or so. Other than that KARNBELN has the right idea. Public libraries may be the way to go...

 

[Trent Roman]

That's crazy; I bought mine at ten dollars, and even that was a complete ripoff. Like the expression says, "Homecoming and an empty sack is worth the price of the sack." Look at it as fate doing you a favour.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[KimMH]

^^^ Owww!

I too was astounded at the asking price for Homecoming. Amazon and Ebay were both averaging $30+ for ENT's Last Full Measure.

 

[Karnbeln]

Maybe you could steal the book from the library, pay the 10 dollar fee, then sell the book on eBay.

 

[dispatcher812]

But does anyone know WHY it is this way? It makes no sense. The second book of the Voyager relauch was only $7 or so.

I tried ebay and several other sites with no luck.

 

[Steve Roby]

But does anyone know WHY it is this way? It makes no sense. The second book of the Voyager relauch was only $7 or so.

I tried ebay and several other sites with no luck.

Supply and demand. If the book's gone out of print and there's increased interest in Voyager novels thanks to Full Circle, or increased interest in Star Trek novels in general due to the new movie, copies will get more expensive.

 

[Trent Roman]

If you must read Homecoming, and the used copies are really that exorbitant, you might want to look into the eBook version available at a number of retailers for between six to ten bucks. Still a ripoff, but even you don't normally care for eBooks it's nowhere near as painful as much as paying 100+ dollars for a used copy of a substandard novel.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

Your best bet would probably be a used book store.

 

[shanejayell]

I've seen copies still in at my local Chapters.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

^
Now that you mention that, I think I just saw one the other day at Books-A-Million.

 

[DimesDan]

I was browsing my local Oxfam last week and I didn't pick up Homecoming, but I did pick up the paper back of Mosaic for £1.99 which I thought was a bit pricey for a charity shop given I had picked up Don Quixote for 50p in a different charity shop (Cancer Research UK) a few minutes earlier and the fact it's recommended retail price was £4.99, but I guess once I've read it, I can always sell it on ebay for a somewhat higher price.

 

[dispatcher812]

Its not that I MUST read it, I am just curios to see what I missed in from what I read in Full Circle. I also want to see what happened when they got home and in the promotion of Chakotay.

 

[Marie1]

^ Like someone suggested, you could get it as an ebook. I just found it for 5.99$
The most expensive ebook I've seen is... 9.51$ I think. Argh, ebooks dominate the search... probably your best bet.

Hmm... Indigo (Chapters) still lists it as 10.99, but you can't order it new at this time, and used is ~70$ as a used and rare book.

 

[dispatcher812]

I don't have a laptop or any one of those new fangeld devices to read an ebook. Plus for me it would not be that praticle given where I read and when I read and for how long I read at a time.

 

[Octavia]

^Someone else who reads in the bath?

 

[dispatcher812]

No baths, but compared to where I am right now, that sounds awsome.

 

[jhempel24]

Yeah, they've got a bunch of them at my half price books for well....half price, and they are in mint condition

 

[donners22]

^Someone else who reads in the bath?

Poor Echoes still has wobbly pages from an accident when I tried that.