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  1. Xref: sparky alt.books.technical:390 sci.math:17419
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!mkant
  3. From: mkant+@cs.cmu.edu (Mark Kantrowitz)
  4. Newsgroups: alt.books.technical,sci.math
  5. Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
  6. Message-ID: <Bzu8rD.1z1.1@cs.cmu.edu>
  7. Date: 25 Dec 92 23:18:49 GMT
  8. Article-I.D.: cs.Bzu8rD.1z1.1
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  10. Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System)
  11. Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
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  14.  
  15. Dover books also aren't as esoteric as you make it seem. The books
  16. they sell sell well. If a textbook sells more than 5,000 copies, it's
  17. doing very well indeed. I believe nearly every book Dover sells is
  18. just such a "bestseller".
  19.  
  20. --mark
  21.