Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
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Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 18:29:12 GMT
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ng4@husc10.harvard.edu (Ho Leung Ng) writes:
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: Dover manages to put out lots of fairly specialized books in math
: and physics and sell them in paperback editions for <$15. How is it that
: they can stay in business?
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A lot of the Dover books are reprints are books whose copyrights have already
expired so no royalties. More important Dover has a nonreturn policy; once
a bookstore buys the book from Dover it is stuck with it (unlike most publishers who have to deal constant returns). Check a periodical index for Forbes; there