After all the hype about Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty First Century, I started wondering whether I might need it for my research and decided to check it out. Then I discovered that in all cooperating libraries it’s either out or hasn’t arrived yet and on Amazon and Barnes & Noble it’s actually out of stock.
And we all know how I feel when I want a book and can’t get it.
Might this all be a ploy on the part of Amazon and Barnes & Noble to sell the ultra-expensive digital version of the book that everybody is desperate to get? Of course, I’m not desperate enough but some people might succumb to the temptation. Will we be seeing more and more of this kind of dishonest behavior on the part of big book sellers?
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Chill. It’s from a university press (Haaavad). Fulfillment of orders is not always all that efficient, and local booksellers hate dealing with some university presses.
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This French guy certainly had no idea of the immense popularity he would suddenly achieve.
What happened to his book is my own greatest secret dream.
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