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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I just got the name backwards. That's them.
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=usagigoya@hotmail.com href="mailto:usagigoya@hotmail.com">Steve
Hubbell</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=groop@groo.com
href="mailto:groop@groo.com">groo gram</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 25, 2010 12:02
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Groop] GROO Odyssey Hard
Cover? (<A
href="mailto:maddening@netzero.net">maddening@netzero.net</A>)</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>There are a couple other companies which also have done
similar library bound hardcovers of the Usagi Yojimbo books over the
years.<BR>Along with Paw Prints (which is produced the most rebound
editions), there has also been books from Sagebrush and
Turtleback.<BR> <BR>The company "Taylor-Baker" sounds like a spin
on the mega-giant book distributor Baker & Taylor....<BR> <BR>
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From: garyg5678@live.com<BR>To: groop@groo.com<BR>Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010
11:38:43 -0700<BR>Subject: Re: [Groop] GROO Odyssey Hard Cover?
(maddening@netzero.net)<BR><BR>
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Hi Folks! <BR> <BR><FONT size=2>OK, here is everything I have found
out about the Groo Trade Hardbacks: <BR><BR>There are two
companies that produce (notice I didn’t say "publish") the Groo hardbacks.
Follett did the one on ebay. They sell exclusively to schools & libraries,
but obviously one slipped through a crack. I think you have to be a registered
"member" to buy the book from the site Jim linked to, and you have to be a
school or library to be a member. The other company is Taylor-Baker
under their "Paw Prints" label. They sell to retailers in addition to schools
and libraries, but it's strictly business-to-business. The Paw Prints books
look a little nicer because they don't have that gap, or interruption, in the
wrap around cover art that the Follett edition has. And there is
apparently a bigger market for hardbacks overseas than
domestically. <BR><BR>Another thing I found out is that none of the
trade hardbacks can be considered "reprints." Dark Horse didn't even know they
were being made! The Paw Prints people are doing exactly the same thing as the
Follett folks, just in a different way; buying prints of the trade and
rebinding them as hardbacks. It’s no different from you taking a Groo trade to
any bindery and having them rebind it as a hardback, except these folks are
anticipating the market for such things. That's not a "reprint." So I won't be
putting either on the Groo List, although I may mention them somewhere.
<BR> <BR>So that's the story. The ebay price is, of course,
completely stupid. And, of course, the guy hasn't changed his promo for
the book, even though I have told him all of the above.
<BR> <BR>Take care all,<BR> <BR>Gary G. (Groo Item
Investigator) </FONT><BR><BR> <BR>> From:
macquarrie@earthlink.net<BR>> To: groop@groo.com<BR>> Date: Sat, 25 Sep
2010 07:49:40 -0700<BR>> Subject: Re: [Groop] GROO Odyssey Hard Cover?
(maddening@netzero.net)<BR>> <BR>> I'm half-tempted to post this to the
comments on that Ebay auction:<BR>> <BR>>
http://www.fes.follett.com/follett_fes_general/bookdetails.cfm?bID=8681978&bc=New&P=1&isbn=NONE&L=0&CFID=7489759&CFTOKEN=49740593<BR>>
<BR>> That book is worth $10, not $2000. What a scam!<BR>> <BR>>
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