Perhaps you'd be best waiting til the new edition appears in the remaindered shops.

I think they do make too many copies of a lot of books. Amazon is amazing - after a year sometimes you can get a book thats cost £20 for a penny, plus about three quid postage.

I can't work it out at all.

You can get a nearly new copy of the Gordon Bowker book about James Joyce tonite (lousy reviews - so I didn't get it) on Amazon for £4.17 - before Christmas it was over twenty five in Waterstones. Not even six months - so I'd be reluctant to part with my shekels by pre-ordering anything.