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- From: sundar+@cs.cmu.edu (Sundar Vallinayagam)
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:49:57 GMT
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- >Guess what! the book costs $60.00. Some people informed me that the
- >same book in Europe and Asia is available as a paperback and for a
- >lot less money. McGraw-Hill informed me that they don't have this
- >book in paperback. These price guaging tactics has pissed me off
- >(not that I can do anything about it). Just wanted to bitch about
- >it.
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- The paperback editions of books by McGraw-Hill are NOT for sale
- within the US/Canada. These editions, called International
- Student Edition (ISE), are low-priced versions of the original
- for sale in certain specific regions. The same holds for other
- publishers like Prentice-Hall, John-Wiley, Macmillan, etc.
- If you give them the ISBN # of the paperback edition and
- order the book (in the US) you will get a reply stating that
- they don't have marketing rights for the paperback edition within
- the US. So when McGraw-Hill informed you about "paperback not
- being available" they meant "not for sale within the US."
-
- If they can sell paperback versions in the international
- market why can't it be done within the US, one might ask.
- That is a different issue altogether...
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