Notre Dame Press Overstock Sale

It's that time of year again -- Univ. of Notre Dame Press's Summer Overstock Sale, where overstock titles are marked down to $5 (paperback), $10 (cloth/hardcover), and some $15 (big and/or popular hardcovers). As many of you know, ND Press prints a LOT of medieval material (there's a whole section in the book list devoted to it).

The list of books available is here: http://www3.undpress.nd.edu/catalogs/OVERSTOCK2013.pdf

To get the discount, enter promo code NDEOVR13 in your shopping cart and hit the "Update" button. The sale runs through Aug. 15.

I'd look, but I'm saving my cat-sitting money for Rhinebeck. I've been unemployed long enough that my disposable spending is severely curtailed (got work?), and books don't exactly turn into shawls by being read.

>1 nathanielcampbell:, thanks for the heads-up. I saw a bunch of intriguing titles. I'll have to use restraint as I'm about to be furloughed. (My heartfelt sympathy for you, AnnaClaire).

Every year when this comes out I cringe a little at seeing something for sale which I paid full price for. Not their fault and it looks like there are several books of interest I don't have which are listed.

I don't know of any other major presses that do overstock sales quite as large and deep as the Notre Dame one, and it got me wondering why...

...then I noticed (as I had in previous years, but never connected the dots) that they warehouse and ship out of the University of Chicago Press. Having been a grad student at Notre Dame, I know that NDPress does NOT have a warehouse on campus -- their offices are comprised of one floor in an administration high-rise (which used to be a dorm in way back when). I'm guessing that they lease space from UCPress, which would then account for the breadth and depth of the overstock sales: it's cheaper for them to sell these books at 5 or 10 a pop than to keep paying for the warehouse space to store them in Chicago.

I put in an order for 18 books with a total list price of over $600, with a total actual price paid of $100 (and free shipping!) -- I ended up using my Kalamazoo allowance money for this, as a variety of factors (schedules, rain, etc.) conspired to keep me from browsing the book stalls last month. Once they arrive and I get them catalogued, I will post a list here.

Oxford's discount sales offer as many titles but the discounts range from 30-65% off, nothing like ND's. Plus Oxford mostly has the same titles time after time (I don't believe I bought a single one from this year's spring sale). Notre Dame adds a lot of new ones each year.

I keep waiting for the Brill discount sale ...

>6 cemanuel:: "I keep waiting for the Brill discount sale ..."

So that the $200 books are sold for only $100? I believe there's something about hell freezing over and pigs flying there....

Their Kalamazoo books are 50% off. I even bought one last year. I figure that meant I'd officially arrived. Someplace.

EDIT: I don't know if you have access to it but I found out there's something called Brill online I can get to through Purdue. Discovered it accidently when I was looking for Epiphanius' Panarion.

>8 cemanuel:: Sadly, the small school I teach at doesn't have the resources to access the major databases like that one, or the incredibly useful (but also incredibly expensive) databases run by Brepols.

I haven't checked Brepols. I recall going ga-ga the first time I came across Wiley online. I was talking to a SLAC professor over lunch at Kalamazoo one time and started talking about what I had access to. I shut up after he said, "I can't get that at my school."

I picked up 8 for about $65. Some in my area of interest, some on the fringes but I'll read them sometime.

Mine arrived today -- you can find them tagged here: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/nathanielcampbell&tag=Notre+Dame+Press+O...

Thanks SO much for this reminder! Mine arrived today - I was so relieved to find the sale still going!