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- From: hdev@dutiai.tudelft.nl (Hans de Vreught)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,alt.books.technical
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
- Message-ID: <hdev.725534145@dutiai>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 09:15:45 GMT
- References: <Bzs1Kr.I4v.1@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Dec24.194233.10811@linus.mitre.org> <92Dec24.175829est.47880@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
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- gh@cs.toronto.edu (Graeme Hirst) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec24.194233.10811@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
- >>Why are people always surprised that technical books with a small audience
- >>are expensive?
-
- I'm not.
-
- >This misses the point of the original posting, which was this: Some
- >publishers (e.g., McGraw-Hill, Prentice-Hall, Addison-Wesley, and other
- >names with hyphens) will make the *same* book in different bindings at
- >different prices in different parts of the world. In particular, they
- >will sell a cheap paperback edition only outside North America, while
- >insisting that North American customers buy the hardcover edition at a
- >much higher price.
-
- I don't think that paperbacks aren't that cheap over here. Text books are
- generally far more cheapier in the States than over here in Europe. Don't
- forget that S&H, sales tax, and the "middle man" from the States to Europe
- make books more expensive.
-
- Well, since the States, Asia, and Europe are far apart, publishers can sell at
- different prices in different parts of the world. Nice? No, but that's life.
- --
- Hans de Vreught | John von Neumann:
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