What's your upper limit?

[Tango13]

For spending on a book?

I'm looking for a bit of a sanity check as I'm looking at Karl Ludvigsens' latest release on supercharged engines which is retailing at around £260!

I can afford it, Ludvigsen always writes very well so it will be very good and I can sort of justify spending that much with a bit of man maths as I don't smoke and hardly drink

I'm just looking for other opinions on how people see the price/value of books.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Unleashed-Trailblaz...

[borcy]

About 20 quid maybe 30 if it was something i really wanted which is only very occasional.
The vast majority of books I read come from charity shops or the library.

[flight147z]

Tango13 said:

For spending on a book?

I'm looking for a bit of a sanity check as I'm looking at Karl Ludvigsens' latest release on supercharged engines which is retailing at around £260!

I can afford it, Ludvigsen always writes very well so it will be very good and I can sort of justify spending that much with a bit of man maths as I don't smoke and hardly drink

I'm just looking for other opinions on how people see the price/value of books.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Unleashed-Trailblaz...

That pricing just feels like greed or the subject is so niche it relies on selling a small number of copies at very high value to make it commercially viable

[coppice]

I've spent £250 before and would do so again. People seem to expect books for nowt - I've had three published , and I probably made 5k from the first one but much less on the other two, which appeared in 2012 and 2017. Writing a book is hugely enjoyable but incredibly time consuming ,and unless you are in a tiny minority, you do it for the pelasure of seeing your book in Waterstones. Seeing something that took you 800hours to write going for the price of a
big glass of Merlot is ....err... educational

Motorsport books sell in small numbers - more than 1000 and you're doing bloody well. Karl L has spent years doing his book and certainly isnt going to get rich on it. Not that he'll need the cash, I suspect, he's had a hell of a life . His book on Colin Chapman - Inside the Innovator is superb