And while London has won a number of "world's most expensive" titles, a curry dinner in an immigrant neighborhood there is usually affordable.
Using data from Warner Bros. and Grand Central Publishing, Elberse shows that the most expensive titles — the potential blockbusters — generally consume a big chunk of a corporation's budget, while generating an even bigger chunk of its revenues.
The majority of the Neo Geo game library is freely (if unofficially) available to play online, and SNK has ported many of the best-known and most expensive titles to modern consoles, offering them for a fraction of their original price.
Then I read about prices for the 2011 Auburn vs. Oregon title game starring Heisman-winner Cam Newton; those tickets, which sold for an average of eighteen hundred dollars on the secondary market, currently hold the record for most expensive B.C.S. title tickets.
Last year, Condé introduced one of its most expensive new titles, Portfolio, its first business magazine, which company executives predict will lose $150 million or more before breaking even in four to five years.
The Bookseller attributes the popularity of the shortlist partly to the fact that two of the novels are already available in a cheap, mass-market format, with even the most expensive of the titles selling for £12.99.
The most expensive proposal, under the title Making Work Pay, would give most workers $500 in tax credits, at a 10-year cost of more than $700 billion.
That could earn it the title of most expensive sculpture sold at auction.
Even as prices for vintage Ferraris made headlines, the Bugatti marque managed to hold the title of most expensive.
"False Start" thus holds the title of most expensive painting by a living artist and is a star in the Met's show.
