Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!akgub!usl!sigma From: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spyridon Triantafyllopoulos) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: College Books resale by University bookstores Message-ID: <195@usl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 21:59:09 EST Article-I.D.: usl.195 Posted: Tue Jan 8 21:59:09 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:40:48 EST Distribution: net.college Organization: USL, Lafayette, LA Lines: 36 here comes a simple math problem..... Say, a new textbook is around 30 dollars. I buy it, and according to an array of laws a certain percent goes to the publisher, etc others, authors rights, etc etc. and the poor bookstore only a few percent. I pass the course (or any thing else ) I sell the book back, getting around 40% to 50% of my bucks. Say I get 14 dollars. A little later a guy or a gal buys my book for somewhere around 23-25 dollars. So the book made $30 initial less $14 ----------- first time $16 plus second $24 ---------------- total: $40. Who gets this (extra) profit?? does it stay in the bookstore completely or some goes back to the (author, publisher, etc)???? In any case, how legal is it????? A little light would go a long way (ever paid $49.95 for Myer's Advanced computer architecture???) -- Spiros Spiros Triantafyllopoulos <> USENET {ut-sally, akgua}!usl!sigma Computer Science Dept, USL <> CSNet TriantafyllopoulosS%usl@csnet-relay.ARPA "This file contains no opinions whatsoever"