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- From: bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst)
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.203717.11913@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:37:17 GMT
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- I graduated from Princeton years ago, Gentlemen. My observations on
- how the trebling of technical book prices has affected education are
- not complaints. The poverty of the scholar is historical. (It
- pre-dates modern political hate-labels.)
-
- The defending of American book prices as reasonable because they are
- expensive to produce misses the point that students can't buy them.
- Remarks that the rest of of world has it worse, so clam up, are not
- profitable remarks.
-
- Students need to own a library, not use a public one. Let me remind
- my colleagues that at the schools where I've taught, libraries are
- nothing but desks for those fleeing amplified music, and every chair
- is taken. Even if they changed their function and purchased hundreds
- of copies of the same texts, they would not be viable substitutes for
- a personal library.
-
- I've clarified my point, you can return to your insightful discussions
- now.
-
- Bruce (Peripatetic Instructor)
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- Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
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