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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,comp.edu
Subject: Re: the high cost of text books!
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Date: 5 Dec 88 13:23:28 GMT
References: <278@heurikon.UUCP> <6304@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
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In article <6304@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
writes:
>...your local bookstore gets a
>VERY small percentage of that cover price. The reasoning of the
>publisher is, "they have a guaranteed market and sell hundreds of the
>things, so they don't need a big margin".

The bookstore decides what margin it wants;  publishers have no say in
deciding at what price a bookstore will sell textbooks.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi