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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.93Jan8011836@panda.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 01:18:36 GMT
- References: <1idj1gINNhah@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan6.151149.7824@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- In-reply-to: gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk's message of 7 Jan 93 17:05:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.170536.28221@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan) writes:
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- I don't think the fact that all students complain about book prices
- proves that they are wrong.
-
- Nor does it prove they were right. My point is only that each intake
- moans about the cost but without any hard data on the relative prices
- I find it difficult to take the moaning seriously.
-
- Yes, I know, I'm moaning. But even if there is no solution to the problem,
- it should at least be admitted that the problem of text-book prices is a
- real one.
-
- See above.
-
- bevan
-