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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
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- Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:26:22 GMT
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- In article <1idj1gINNhah@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> hougen@focus.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen) writes:
- >goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart E. Goddard) writes:
-
- >% In articles <> several well-meaning but misguided souls write:
- >%% Have they suddenly lost the ability to use the libraries?
- >% Just how many copies of a text book do you suppose a library carries?
-
- >You said that college students didn't have the opportunity to read,
- >*not* just that text books were expensive. But if you want to devise
- >a solution, why not ask professors to require less expensive books in
- >their courses? There are many very high quality books that appear as
- >paper backs.
-
- There are not too many reasonable and non-obsolete textbooks which are
- in paperback. The largest service course our department teaches has
- not been able to come up with a good one in hard binding, either.
- I do not believe that there are good textbooks for most of our
- other courses, either.
-
- The amount of effort required to produce a fairly good book when one
- does not already exist for a one-semester to one-year course is two
- or three person-years, and preferably involves more than one person
- writing it. An active faculty member does not have the time to do
- very much writing.
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- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
- Phone: (317)494-6054
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