A Jasper Fforde mystery

john.hunt100 · 03-06-2009, 01:27 PM

Hi

I was just browsing eBookCrescent to see if there were any more Jasper Fforde books on there, as I read The Fourth Bear as my first eBook and have been hooked on ebooks ever since. However, there was only the Fourth Bear listed. The mystery is, it was listed twice along with two prices - does anybody know why, its not like there is a hardback and paperback version - or is there? Hence the mystery. Anybody know whats happening here?

http://www.ebookcrescent.com/advance...h+bear&x=9&y=9

cheers
John

wayrad · 03-06-2009, 01:32 PM

Even more disturbing, the second one is listed under Nonfiction...

MaggieScratch · 03-06-2009, 05:20 PM

This should probably be on a different forum, but oh well.

I'm not familiar with that retailer, but probably they get their books from two different suppliers, with two different pricing schemes. You can probably go ahead and buy the less expensive version.

Not sure where the Non-fiction tag came from, though.

I think only some of Fforde's books are available as ebooks. They are great (I have them all in paper!)

Ea · 03-17-2009, 02:49 PM

Yes, Jasper Fforde is great! I think all of them is available, a little search found them here and here. perhaps you can find them at better prices other places. DieselBooks mysteriously lists The Fourth bear twice

You should read all of them

john.hunt100 · 03-20-2009, 04:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Ea

Yes, Jasper Fforde is great! I think all of them is available, a little search found them here and here. perhaps you can find them at better prices other places. DieselBooks mysteriously lists The Fourth bear twice

You should read all of them

And the price is different on each listing as well. What can be so different between ebooks to warrant such a difference?

Ea · 03-20-2009, 08:43 AM

The difference is between 13.50 and 14 USD, that's not very much. I guess it's pricing policies at the individual book sellers?

We could put Thursday Next on the case. Those book prices are certainly literary crimes

Moe The Cat · 03-21-2009, 11:45 AM

At Diesel, the more expensive Fourth Bear is Penguin, while the less expensive version is from Viking. The Penguin is the British version and the Viking is the American version, I guess. I don't know if that means any difference in the text. Maybe a few variations in spelling?

Elsi · 03-21-2009, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Moe The Cat

At Diesel, the more expensive Fourth Bear is Penguin, while the less expensive version is from Viking. The Penguin is the British version and the Viking is the American version, I guess. I don't know if that means any difference in the text. Maybe a few variations in spelling?

Possibly. The Brits tend to throw in a couple of extra 'u's from time to time and have this strong need to change a 'z' to an 's'.

Maybe the price difference reflects the exchange rate at the time the book info was loaded into the database?

HarryT · 03-22-2009, 04:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Ea

Yes, Jasper Fforde is great! I think all of them is available, a little search found them here and here. perhaps you can find them at better prices other places. DieselBooks mysteriously lists The Fourth bear twice

You should read all of them

Do you not find that they get a little "repetitive" after a while? I really enjoyed the first couple of the "Thursday Next" books but after that found that they were basically just the same idea repeated over and over again. There's only so much of that that I can take.

Ea · 03-22-2009, 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

Do you not find that they get a little "repetitive" after a while? I really enjoyed the first couple of the "Thursday Next" books but after that found that they were basically just the same idea repeated over and over again. There's only so much of that that I can take.

No, not really. Perhaps it's because I find the universe quite fascinating, and I think he makes good use of the characters and develops them - as well as he also develops the universe. I'll admit I'm charmed by the idea of the bookworld, too

Finally, I really like Thursday as a heroine. She is in many ways quite ordinary, with ordinary problems, and she solves her problems without superpowers or extraordinary intelligence - she just keeps going and keeps fighting. She's also self-reliant, she doesn't need a man, though she has one that she very much wants to be with. There's very little of typical gender behaviour in Thursday - she's just herself. That's very unusual, and I like it.

john.hunt100 · 03-23-2009, 01:32 PM

The difference is between 13.50 and 14 USD, that's not very much. I guess it's pricing policies at the individual book sellers?
Ea

The difference is between $14 and $24 - that seems quite substantial to me. Even at the lower price I am going to wait until they get a decent price for an eBook when the pbooks are so much cheaper. I'll keep reading the classics

03-06-2009, 01:27 PM	#1
john.hunt100 Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Manchester, UK Device: Cybook Gen3	A Jasper Fforde mystery Hi I was just browsing eBookCrescent to see if there were any more Jasper Fforde books on there, as I read The Fourth Bear as my first eBook and have been hooked on ebooks ever since. However, there was only the Fourth Bear listed. The mystery is, it was listed twice along with two prices - does anybody know why, its not like there is a hardback and paperback version - or is there? Hence the mystery. Anybody know whats happening here? http://www.ebookcrescent.com/advance...h+bear&x=9&y=9 cheers John

03-17-2009, 02:49 PM	#4
Ea Wizard Posts: 3,490 Karma: 5239563 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Denmark Device: Kindle 3\|iPad air\|iPhone 4S	Yes, Jasper Fforde is great! I think all of them is available, a little search found them here and here. perhaps you can find them at better prices other places. DieselBooks mysteriously lists The Fourth bear twice You should read all of them Last edited by Ea; 03-17-2009 at 02:50 PM. Reason: url fix

03-23-2009, 01:32 PM	#11
john.hunt100 Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Manchester, UK Device: Cybook Gen3	The difference is between 13.50 and 14 USD, that's not very much. I guess it's pricing policies at the individual book sellers? Ea The difference is between $14 and $24 - that seems quite substantial to me. Even at the lower price I am going to wait until they get a decent price for an eBook when the pbooks are so much cheaper. I'll keep reading the classics Last edited by john.hunt100; 03-23-2009 at 01:33 PM. Reason: not copied the post I was replying to

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Ea Wizard Posts: 3,490 Karma: 5239563 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Denmark Device: Kindle 3\|iPad air\|iPhone 4S	The difference is between 13.50 and 14 USD, that's not very much. I guess it's pricing policies at the individual book sellers? We could put Thursday Next on the case. Those book prices are certainly literary crimes

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Moe The Cat Bear Melt Posts: 919 Karma: 5433051 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Toronto Device: Google Pixel 6, Moto G9 Power (both with Fbreader) & Kindle PW2	At Diesel, the more expensive Fourth Bear is Penguin, while the less expensive version is from Viking. The Penguin is the British version and the Viking is the American version, I guess. I don't know if that means any difference in the text. Maybe a few variations in spelling?

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