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- From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
- Subject: Re: Price of books
- Date: 23 Jul 1992 05:34:34 GMT
- Organization: The Sinister Icy Black Hand of Death Club
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- References: <70272@apple.Apple.COM> <14gf82INNmf2@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul23.030612.11405@lucid.com>
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- In article <1992Jul23.030612.11405@lucid.com> lola@lucid.com (Lola McCrary) writes:
- )But a movie is more than [4.99], doesn't last as long as most books, and you
- )don't get to take it home and keep it!!
- )
- )Lola
-
- The point is not that the price is high, it's that if they're
- going to raise the cents figure from the traditional 95, they could
- at least round it up to a whole dollar instead of making it an
- unaesthetic 99. (Recall that this thread started with the observation
- that some publishers have rounded hardback prices up to a whole dollar.)
-
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- David Goldfarb |"I'm going to die if you touch me one more time.
- goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu |Well, I guess that I'm going to die no matter what."
- goldfarb@UCBOCF.BITNET | -- They Might Be Giants
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