Buying my book on wine science

I get quite a lot of queries on how to buy my book Wine Science. In the UK, that book was published by Mitchell Beazley in November 2005. It sold pretty well, and the initial print run all disappeared. Will they reprint it? Probably not, was the reply I got. They aren’t very good at responding to emails, and so I don’t know whether it’s officially out of print, or whether I can get back the rights to publish it.

But whatever the situation, the aftermath of that is that you can’t get hold of it in the UK or most other markets (although I recently found out that http://www.aroundwine.com/ have some copies still). Amazon.co.uk list it as out of stock.

In the USA, it was published in
March 2006 as The Science of Wine. Different cover, too (pictured), but precisely the same composition. They sold through their initial order of 5000 and have since ordered two more runs of 4000, which is good, but I don’t get very much for each copy sold (just 10% of gross receipts received by Mitchell Beazley, who sell them the books very cheaply).

The good news is that it’s very cheap to buy the book from amazon.com in the USA and thereupon get it shipped to the UK. Cheaper, even, than it was to buy the book in the UK when it was still available here. I just checked on amazon.com and the cost was £17.82 delivered. The link is here.

Original post by Jamie

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