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Juku: A Comics Album is now commanding $500 a pop on Amazon.

The people who were part of this and are still alive and have boxes of copies of this should post some of them for sale. I'll be talking about it at A-Kon this weekend and I'll talk about about it again during Anime Fest in August, so I'm pretty sure you can sell your copies.

I'll bet the people who are still alive and still have copies could even sign them and ask for more.

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[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

If we have more than three copies of JUKU in our house, I'd be surprised. I would also be surprised if anybody is actually paying those algorithmically generated, fake-scarcity driven Amazon prices.

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

Hey, you know the scalper/crazy grandma motto: "It only takes one..."

Man, kinda wish I was at A-Kon. Kinda. I think it's just that desire to get out, ya know? I don't think I can go to any more cons while mom is the way she is. I mean, besides the broke-ass thing and all. :)

ETA: John Ringo and Helen McCarthy are guests? F**K!

I missed David Drake and now John Ringo. Dammit.

Eric Flint is of interest as well.

I have zero idea who any of the voice actors or cosplay guests are. boo hoo hoo, so sad, yes? :)

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I know that two weeks ago, there were 10 copies for sale.

Last week, there were 5 and two of those were $100+.

This is more for Ed, who says he's got at least 50 copies.

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

I know Danno was in charge of selling them via Amazon, but I never did get any sort of sales figures from him at any point. I don't know if we sold five or fifty through Amazon.

We probably sold fifty at Acen 2002 and another fifty at AWA that year. I don't know what they sold at Dallas cons, if any. Bruce and Mundee quit trying to sell JUKU halfway through that first Acen; by the second Acen they had abandoned CDE's table entirely and were selling somebody's applique'd cigar boxes at Bob and Emily's table in the dealers room.

In 2003, sales at AWA and Acen were roughly half what they were previously. People were expecting a new book, and that was simply not gonna happen.

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

FWIW, I can testify that Bruce never brought any copies of Juku on his couple of trips to Grand Rapids and JAFAX.

Given how JAFAX had the habit of 'once a guest always a guest' the fact he stopped BEING a guest is an interesting data point.