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- From: bathurst@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst)
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.090023.477@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <1icl8cINN983@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan5.203717.11913@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan6.212111.17381@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:00:23 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.212111.17381@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu. (Gregory McColm) writes:
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- [SNIP,SNIP]
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- >How
- >could it cost anywhere near that for Elsevier to make a copy?
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- [SNIP,SNIP]
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- A university instructor was selling his very useful statistical
- program for prices beyond that of academics (let alone students). He
- was asked several times at a meeting how he determined the fair value
- of his product. He repeatedly answered with enthusiasm that a
- marketing study showed he couldn't ask any more.
-
- Bruce (Peripatetic Instructor)
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