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Apparently a “deluxe” version of Mark’s book is coming

 

This feels…cash grabby?

 

The fuck does that mean?

 

Is that phrase like the Blink Reddit's new favorite phrase lately? I keep seeing it tossed around over there and I don't get it.

 

I don’t travel to those parts, but since when do we do deluxe books? Haha

 

Is this rhetorical? You’re asking the family that has probably eight different versions of LOTR within sight right now.

 

Lmao, at least those took 70 years to produce, not 3 months lol. All i’m saying is give me a second book rather than stuffing extra chapters into this one!

 

What’s the difference really though? If you don’t have enough content for another book? Dave Grohl did the same with his recent book. Maybe I’m the wrong person for this question though, cause I own multiple deluxe and “special edition” copies of my favorite books. And have spent annoying amounts of money on them too. Same with records/deluxe albums.

 

I don’t love the idea of a deluxe edition of a book. I have Mark’s book sitting on my shelf as we speak but have yet to read it because of lack of free time, but if I knew a deluxe were coming out in say the next 6-8 months or so I’d probably just hold off, sell off this copy, and grab the complete story when it’s out. That’s just me

 

Deluxe actually contains a twist ending different from the original.

 

I think for me it boils down to the time between releases. Anniversary editions feel more like a celebration of media and enough time has passed where deluxe editions (especially the more recent trend of everything getting a deluxe within a year) feel like you’re intentionally selling something twice. I will say though blink releasing that stand-alone OMT Part 2 is a trend i’d like to see continued that I haven’t seen too many artists do. This is mostly just the completionist in me annoyed at my ever shrinking shelf space lol.

 

I just looked in one book case for fun, every single non-fiction book I have is like version four or above. With new forewords or extra chapters and new photos. I think I’m just more used to expecting my media to always get new editions. And I’ve seen that time between the first and next start to shrink more and more as we move into an attention economy that is basically infinite. To add new songs to streaming is trivial. To update content has just become part of the entire process. From hardback to paperback used to be the “here’s new stuff” timeline.

(50th anniversary of Jaws on Friday, I think I saw yet another Blu-ray with new shit for it.)

 

I wonder if a deluxe version of the book may just mean it has a different cover or something, and maybe not more stories. But who knows.

 

I actually don’t have the book yet so I’d be very cool with them adding more to it

 

In the book world lately its been common for deluxe editions of novels (mostly sci fi) to have sprayed edges.

wouldn’t surprise me if the paperback edition contained bonus chapters. Dan Ozzi did that for the paperback release of Sellout but its too early for a pb edition of Mark’s book.

in any case, maybe its an expanded edition with Tom dick pics and sprayed edges of phalluses.