Alexander's Mosin Book

[SA1911a1]

I bet he is re-thinking his position on whether to print another batch of books.

[Junk Yard Dog]

I bet he is re-thinking his position on whether to print another batch of books.

Wow Steve, very generous of you to fund the 500 grand needed to print enough for everyone out of your own pocket! Now every new Mosin owner can have one

[capt14k]

I think I'm missing something here. Could someone explain

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[cjsimoh]

Is he out of them? I got one... It's a must have reference for any Mosin Nagant collector.

[BuckeyeSgt]

I think I'm missing something here. Could someone explain

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http://www.russian-mosin-nagant-forum.c ... =5&t=26951

I'm guessing he is out of them and sold a bunch. But still has people looking for it.

[Junk Yard Dog]

This is why I bought mine early, pre order, everyone on the board was made that offer and I hope everyone took advantage of it. I am now waiting for the next installment.

[capt14k]

I see that now, $100 with a week to go. Thank you for clarifying. Is it really $500k for another printing? How many was first printing?

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[Junk Yard Dog]

I have no idea, I was just having fun with Steve, Alexander did imply that printing another run of books would be expensive. Probably more so now with so many more people wanting a copy, I had better lock mine up in the vault.

[Longcolt44]

Anyone want to bet that there will be computer generated copies on ebay soon?

[capt14k]

I see that now, $100 with a week to go. Thank you for clarifying. Is it really $500k for another printing? How many was first printing?

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I am not sure but according to the author, I think the first printing was only about 500 books or so.

If he sold them at $30 a book then my guess is it was more like $10,000 to print 500 books. It looks like 100 hardcover books printed with 300 B&W pages and 100 color pages total of 400 pages would cost $25/book. How many pages of color and B&W are in the book? The wheels in my head are turning. If people are willing to pay $100/copy I would gladly fund the next printing if the author would split the profits.

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[Junk Yard Dog]

You can contact him directly, he is a board member, look up the old thread on the Mosin forum, it's about three months ago, maybe 4

[Fledge]

Glad I got mine when I did. I figured these would only be available for limited time. Guess I was right.

[SA1911a1]

When I ordered my copy I screwed up and paid twice. Alex contacted me to arrange a complicated refund. I told him to forget it, just send me two copies. One is still wrapped in the shipping paper, where it will stay for a while yet.

[Junk Yard Dog]

You could probably trade that for a Mosin now Steve, what are you going to do read the same book twice? Mosin be more fun, somebody here got a spare M39 to trade Steve? 91/59? 1907 carbine? M24?

[SA1911a1]

You could probably trade that for a Mosin now Steve, what are you going to do read the same book twice? Mosin be more fun, somebody here got a spare M39 to trade Steve? 91/59? 1907 carbine? M24?

Read the same book twice? Jim, for the last few years I have been able to read a book, then come back three months later and enjoy it again. I just finished reading a John Grishom book I picked up at a thrift store, and I was two thirds through it before it started sounding familiar...I looked and there was another copy on the shelf. Oh well, my reading is getting cheaper.

What has floored me is the cost of Serbian and Yugoslav Mauser Rifles by Branko Bogdanovic. I picked up a new condition copy just a few months ago for about $15.00 and now I see that the floor price on Amazon is $129.00! It is a good book, but a hundred thirty bucks for a freaking paperback?

[SA1911a1]

You could probably trade that for a Mosin now Steve, what are you going to do read the same book twice? Mosin be more fun, somebody here got a spare M39 to trade Steve? 91/59? 1907 carbine? M24?

Read the same book twice? Jim, for the last few years I have been able to read a book, then come back three months later and enjoy it again. I just finished reading a John Grishom book I picked up at a thrift store, and I was two thirds through it before it started sounding familiar...I looked and there was another copy on the shelf. Oh well, my reading is getting cheaper.

What has floored me is the cost of Serbian and Yugoslav Mauser Rifles by Branko Bogdanovic. I picked up a new condition copy just a few months ago for about $15.00 and now I see that the floor price on Amazon is $129.00! It is a good book, but a hundred thirty bucks for a freaking paperback?

[Junk Yard Dog]

Read it twice as in open the package and have two copys of the same book reading both at once. It's a reference book so I would expect you to be reading at least parts of it often. Think of how many Yugo Mauser's are out there, every new owner wants to know the story of their rifle and that book is pretty much the best work on that subject available, I know because I own that one also.

[Junk Yard Dog]

I still have my copy of the book stored in the package it came in, all the cool stamps on it made me reluctant to toss it out.

[Fledge]

I still have my copy of the book stored in the package it came in, all the cool stamps on it made me reluctant to toss it out.

Same here

[Ratnik]

Hello, Gentlemen!
At first, I want to thank everybody for the interest to the book. I will try to explain real situation with this book.
I will be fair, this book is not a project that I planned for many years. It was rather an experiment. Idea appeared suddenly, and actually, finally I was convinced to start this book by Ryan Elliot, who helped me with translation. It's was not a business project. Time period that was spent for this book is quite small - less than a year (from first idea to real printed copies), mostly I used my old researches. It will be difficult to explain, what was the value of information that was used for book creation (in money and time), but considering that Mosins are not the only area of my interest, I was not able to spent more money on documents, so the only way was to print as is. Printing of this book allowed me to return (partially) money invested in researches.
Book was quite successfull. But this success cost much to me - for more 3 months I was busy with shipping of the books, messaging with customers (some of them can't read few rows of clear instructions ), and other matters connected with book. I really tried to make book as cheap as possible - my idea was to share with information that was unknown with more people as possible. For example, I selected cheaper for buyer, but much more problematic for me way of shipping. And from 30$ that buyer paid for a book, I received at 10% less because PayPal do not allow users from Ukraine to recieve money, and I used intermediary to accept payments.

As it was stated above, book was not a commercial project, and currently I'm not ready to do this again in same format - I have another matters and projects. But this did not mean that I stopped researches in Mosin areas and this is the end. Even at the current moment I already discovered some very interesting facts and documents, and there will be of them more in future. So I need some time to rethink conception of the book
One of my friends now is searching a way to print near 200 books in US. If price of printing and handling of the orders will be appropriate I promise I will think about additional run.