Do they do this everywhere? Whenever a book is out of print they start to charge enormous high prices for the books that are left/haven't been sold yet.
And I don't mean individual people who do things like this on eBay, the regular (web)stores do this here. So you get these enormous prices for, say a regular paperback edtion.
I know first printings of books are always important to collectors, but they do this with every book here (or certainly King's) as soon as it becomes more difficult to obtain. Basically the only thing you can do is just buy them as soon as they come out (even when you haven't the time to read them yet), because when you want a specific one at a later date and it's already out of print you will have to pay enormous prices. These prices seem hardly legal to me, but it happens, so it's probably legal.
And I don't mean individual people who do things like this on eBay, the regular (web)stores do this here. So you get these enormous prices for, say a regular paperback edtion.
I know first printings of books are always important to collectors, but they do this with every book here (or certainly King's) as soon as it becomes more difficult to obtain. Basically the only thing you can do is just buy them as soon as they come out (even when you haven't the time to read them yet), because when you want a specific one at a later date and it's already out of print you will have to pay enormous prices. These prices seem hardly legal to me, but it happens, so it's probably legal.