Hi guys!
Does anyone know what the story with Allured Books is? Suddenly they're not selling anything anymore, and it looks like this whole giant body of knowledge evaporated overnight. What happened?
And I really wanted to get a copy of Coloring the Cosmetic World too
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They may come back in the form of digital books but I can't say for sure.
Can you link me to the copy you found, please? I'd really appreciate it
@Perry
Do you know why they decided to drop the book business? I imagine this has left a lot of authors in the lurch
http://www.allured.com/our-markets/cosmetics-and-personal-care
http://www.allured.com/our-markets/flavor-and-fragrance
I'm not so familiar with the next one as it concerns cosmetics at the user end:
http://www.allured.com/our-markets/professional-skin-care/
At this time the subscriptions to the main magazines (C&T and P&F) were quite costly (but highly respected) and this, with the advertising, provided the Allureds with a nice steady income. Remember this was well before the days of cyberspace.
The situation now is that Internet versions of the magazines are effectively free to the reader, being paid for entirely by advertising, but also very up to date with news items from the industry being sent to subscribers on an almost daily basis - this, the advertisers like!
@Bobzchemist the thing about digital editions is that if you're so worried about pirating that you're going to make life difficult for your paying customers, they'll stop being your paid customers and your books will be pirated anyway (there's no DRM that can't be broken, and physical books can be easily scanned). I'm worried about the description of an online-only book on Allured's website because that's a very annoying option. I want to read my book when I'm riding for 90 minutes in the train on my way to work, where I won't have internet access, and I don't want to be stuck with some probably awful website-based reader app. Basically, .epub or bust. It seems that Chemical Publishing has the right idea selling Harry's Cosmeticology both in ePub format and hardcover (and it's definitely on my To Buy list).
Running an online-only operation is much easier to secure, on the other hand. I suspect that annoying their readers is way, way down on their list of things to worry about. It's always seemed to me that their customer service was strongly influenced by their being a near-monopoly in a tiny market, which meant that making a profit was their first, second, and third priority.
Anyway, to try to mollify you somewhat:
https://chemistscorner.com/cosmeticsciencetalk/discussion/2807/book-available-for-free-download#latest
I know it isn't a hard (paper) copy but you might use a printer and prepare that yourself.
You could also look amongst the numerous secondhand book dealers that populate the Internet. I have bought numerous out of print books that way.
Where do you shop for out of print books?
Still no sign of the book I originally set out to get though