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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca!mroussel
  3. From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
  4. Subject: Re: jump in price of journals
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov19.210512.27600@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
  6. Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
  7. References: <1992Nov18.165625.21728@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <hdev.722133059@dutiag> <1992Nov19.193647.24279@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
  8. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:05:12 GMT
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  10.  
  11. In article <1992Nov19.193647.24279@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
  12. rivin@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Igor Rivin) writes:
  13. >Again, with the current state of
  14. >funding, I find it hard to believe that many libraries will find the
  15. >$200 to pay for North Holland/Elsevier books (easily triple Springer
  16. >prices for comparable titles).
  17.  
  18.      We shouldn't unfairly single out Elsevier.  First of all, some
  19. North Holland paperbacks are quite affordable.  Secondly, most of the
  20. major publishers have a few overpriced titles.  I would love to own a
  21. copy of d'Ari and Thomas' book "Biological Control Systems" (a CRC Press title)
  22. but I can't afford it.  I'm sure that CRC Press priced it thinking that
  23. few individuals would want to own it, but then that just becomes a
  24. self-fulfilling prophecy.
  25.  
  26.                 Marc R. Roussel
  27.                                 mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
  28.