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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
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Posted: Tue Jan  8 21:59:09 1985
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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

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