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The new SW Encyclopedia arrives!
Dec. 10th, 2008 06:39 pmBoy am I glad I preordered that thing on Amazon months ago. It was $47.50 back then and Amazon's policy is to give you the lower price when you preorder should the final version cost more. Now it's $75 on Amazon and $125 at full retail price!
With seven different authors and three volumes, it goes to show you how much was added to SW since the last edition in 1998. Much of it is because of the expanded universe of books, comics, and video games, but of course we've also had three more movies and an animated series.
Now some of you are wondering why, in an age of Wookieepedia and other references sources on the internet available for free, would you bother buying this? Won't the info be obsolete in just a year? Six months? Well, sometimes you just want to-the-point, accessible info without having to plow through inaccuracies and the sort of overdone information you commonly find on wikis. Not to mention biases. Besides, this has pretty pictures!
With seven different authors and three volumes, it goes to show you how much was added to SW since the last edition in 1998. Much of it is because of the expanded universe of books, comics, and video games, but of course we've also had three more movies and an animated series.
Now some of you are wondering why, in an age of Wookieepedia and other references sources on the internet available for free, would you bother buying this? Won't the info be obsolete in just a year? Six months? Well, sometimes you just want to-the-point, accessible info without having to plow through inaccuracies and the sort of overdone information you commonly find on wikis. Not to mention biases. Besides, this has pretty pictures!
