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- From: erik@naggum.no (Erik Naggum)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,alt.books.technical
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
- Message-ID: <19921227.008@erik.naggum.no>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 21:39:54 GMT
- References: <ng4.725269975@husc.harvard.edu> <1992Dec25.182912.9619@dorsai.com>
- Reply-To: Erik Naggum <enag@ifi.uio.no>
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- Joseph Fortt <jfortt@dorsai.com> writes:
- |
- | 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).
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- This is not the problem it appears to be. Dover books are classics in
- their field. Euclid: The Elements is not going to come in an updated
- edition any time soon, for instance.
-
- The bookstore can just hold on to the copy, and accumulate interest on
- the initial investment in it, add "shelf rent" and sell it when a buyer
- eventually comes around asking for it.
-
- Dover does a very good job, and deserve credit for their long-range
- publishing policies in a market where other publishers go bananas if
- they can't recover their costs in the first three months after release.
-
- Best regards,
- </Erik>
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