American Discworld books

[Tiffany]

Hi, I'm back at last...

My American penpal has sent me three paperback Discworld books.....
The Fifth Elephant
Night Watch
Going Postal.

She found them in a thrift shop, (our charity shops here). She is a lovely lady.
So I now have three more for my collection.

Is anyone else collecting American versions as well as the British copies?

 

[MattK]

I'd actually like to try and get the British version of Unseen Academicals when it comes out. The cover looks so much better, I think.

 

[Tiffany]

You can probably order it on the net, MattK. Or, if you know anyone in U.K. perhaps they could post a copy to you.

 

[chris.ph]

he knows plenty of people on here tiff

 

[MattK]

You can probably order it on the net, MattK. Or, if you know anyone in U.K. perhaps they could post a copy to you.

What?! No one told me I'd have to talk to foreigners for this.

 

[Tonyblack]

Matt - you might want to try Amazon.Canada. They do the UK covers and the price is pretty good even with shipping. Just remember the price is in Canadian Dollars not US.

 

[MattK]

Yeah, that probably won't be a huge deal: exchange.

 

[Tonyblack]

Blimey there's almost no difference at the moment.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Tony the Fo'Paws dealer at Worldcon was giving the same rate for both when you bought anything as he said it was minimal and not worth the bother of converting.

 

[Tonyblack]

Going back to Tiffany's first point. I'm not collecting the American covers, but I do have a few anyhow. I've even found one or two in British charity shops and rescued them.

I've also got an Advance Readers Copy of Thud! from America.

 

[Tiffany]

I haven't seen any American TP versions here, Tony, in charity shops. Lucky you. I always look as well.
The pound sterling is almost the same as the Dollar now.

 

[Tonyblack]

I haven't seen any American TP versions here, Tony, in charity shops. Lucky you. I always look as well.
The pound sterling is almost the same as the Dollar now.

It's $1.63 = £1 at the moment. Last year it was around $2 = £1 those were great days!

 

[Tiffany]

I know I looked, tiz costing me a lot more to respond to my pals parcels now.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I haven't seen any American TP versions here, Tony, in charity shops. Lucky you. I always look as well.
The pound sterling is almost the same as the Dollar now.

It's $1.63 = £1 at the moment. Last year it was around $2 = £1 those were great days!

It certainly was I even came back from the WorldCon in Denver with some dollars.

now I can spend them in Tempe.

 

[nattheweirdo]

I had two american paperbacks the light fantastic and the colour of magic, bt i gave them to my friend ( TP obsessed like me ) and got the English versions. awesome for the charity shop bit though . i have 23 of his books and all from carboots or charity shops except the last hero (making 24...) which i got seriosuly reduced from a craft sop...dont ask me why it was there I really don't know o.0 it was £1 for the hardback copy!!:O:O must say my friend was not pleased who payed £9.99 for the paperback copy

X Nattheweirdo

 

[bikkit]

I've got a russian hardback. Actually, the russian covers are really nice.