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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:04:00 EDT
- Reply-To: Jay Bragg <JBRAGG@CALS1.CALS.NCSU.EDU>
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- From: Jay Bragg <JBRAGG@CALS1.CALS.NCSU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Price of textbooks
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- > Perhaps I am naive, but these prices seem grotesque. Is someone aware
- > of the economics (breakouts for author, publisher, materials, ...
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- I know of a graduate level course with a $75 text in which 90% of the
- class photocopied the text at $.05/page x 300 pages. A few
- financially destitute students hit the reduction key and were able to
- get two book pages for $.05; I don't condone this - the publisher,
- author and bookstore suffer and stealing *is* illegal and immoral.
- However, reality is that not all (graduate) students can afford to
- pay $200-300/semester for texts; the ubiquitous photocopier + low
- esteem most students have for textbook publishers = cheap text.
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- /jay bragg jay_bragg@ncsu.edu /
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