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From: gae@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,comp.edu
Subject: Re: How to beat the high cost of text books!
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Date: 8 Dec 88 20:18:38 GMT
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In article <483@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>If you can't use the book, you might either pass it along to a colleague
>who could use it, donate it to your library, or return it to the publisher.

There are characters who come around to my office frequently (and I mean
frequently: sometimes more than one a day) who want to BUY these sample
textbooks from me.  What is the ethics of that?

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  Gerald A. Edgar                               TS1871@OHSTVMA.bitnet
  Department of Mathematics                     gae@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu
  The Ohio State University                     gae@osupyr.UUCP
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