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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:34:53 -0500
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- From: "Paul A. Thompson" <pat@PO.CWRU.EDU>
- Subject: Price of textbooks
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- Can somebody explain why, in these days of computerized typesetting and
- typesetting languages, the price of textbooks continues to escalate in
- such an unbelievable way? For instance, a paperback copy of W.Fuller's
- Survival Analysis was purchased by my data analyst yesterday for ~$46.
- This is about 160 pages, paperback.
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- Perhaps I am naive, but these prices seem grotesque. Is someone aware
- of the economics (breakouts for author, publisher, materials, distribution,
- marketing) that can explain them to the rest of us? When IMS publishes
- monographs, they are much cheaper than for profit publishers (this goes
- under the heading "You needed a PhD to figure this out?"). However, the
- discrepancy is not 20 %, but 120 %. What's going on?
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- Paul Thompson, Ph.D. | Department of Psychiatry | (216) 844-7463
- Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH 44106
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