X-Message-Number: 21751
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 09:29:53 -0400
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: CryoNet #21742 - #21750

Hi everyone!

By now many readers of Cryonet will know of my new fiction work, 
TALES OF SKASTOWE, which I have been selling for $15 US.

However the book is produced in Australia, and the Australian
dollar has been rising against the US dollar, thus cutting into
any money I might make from the book and threatening me with
an outright loss if I continue to publish at $15 US. I don't
know how fast or long this rise will continue, either. And if
you aren't used to looking at currency exchange rates, then 
look at the financial pages of your newspaper --- or a good
financial magazine. This is NOT a sales trick.

I am presently trying to find a US publisher, and that will solve
this problem. Until then, I continue to publish the book myself.

I have decided to raise the price of TALES OF SKASTOWE to 
$16 US starting on 1 July 2003 (this year). I hope that I won't
have to raise it higher. As all the students of currency know,
currencies with a high value make exporting harder and importing
easier, while those with a low value have the reverse effect:
making exporting easier and importing harder. So goes the world.

            Best wishes and long long life to all,

                Thomas Donaldson

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