{"id":4255,"date":"2016-07-04T06:58:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T06:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2016-07-04T07:01:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T07:01:07","slug":"3-covers-and-a-how-much-plus-a-josh-kirby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2016\/07\/04\/3-covers-and-a-how-much-plus-a-josh-kirby\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Covers and a ‘How Much!!’ plus a Josh Kirby"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve said many times before the pricing of books is a real mystery to me.
\nHaving noticed I had three of the four Piccolo ‘Out and About’ <\/a><\/span>series I thought I’d see if I could get the missing title. No luck on all the usual sites so I\u00a0just thought I’d try some Amazon sites abroad as I’ve had some success in the past. I found the title “Farmer Joe’s Farm’ on a couple of\u00a0them namely Italy and Spain. What I can’t get my head round is the price they were asking having only paid pence for all the others, how do they come up with these for a children’s 16 page book? Have a guess and then click on the sites below to see how close you came.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"AZit\"<\/a>
\n\"Azes\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Did you get anywhere near? With the turmoil here in the UK and the pound falling against the euro I think I may have to give it a miss at the moment!<\/span><\/p>\n

I have now got the third Dan McGirt\u00a0<\/a><\/span>book\u00a0‘Dirty Work’ with a\u00a0Josh Kirby cover.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally I occasionally get asked some strange questions and I think Jem Birch wins for his last one but then again I do like a challenge. He asked if ‘Jet’ at three characters was the shortest PAN title and ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ with 42 characters was the longest? Luckily I have all the titles in one mammoth spreadsheet so thinking back to all those courses I ran on Excel I remembered how to ask for the maximum and minimum characters in a cell. The results were:<\/span><\/p>\n

X593 Booth’s Handbook Of Cocktails And Mixed Drinks\u00a046<\/span>
\nG714 The Second Pan Junior Crossword Puzzle Book\u00a043<\/span>
\nX537 The Girl On The Bus and Other Love Stories\u00a0\u00a042<\/span>
\nG505 The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner\u00a0\u00a042<\/span><\/p>\n

M213 Mia \u00a0\u00a03<\/span>
\nMP106 Sex\u00a03<\/span>
\nX15 Jet\u00a0\u00a03<\/span><\/p>\n

So Jem was right with the shortest but not the longest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I’ve said many times before the pricing of books is a real mystery to me. Having noticed I had three of the four Piccolo ‘Out and About’ series I thought I’d see if I could get the missing title. No luck on all the usual sites so I\u00a0just thought I’d try some Amazon sites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}