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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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Subject: Re: How to beat the high cost of text books!
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Date: 8 Dec 88 18:00:08 GMT
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In article <3466@emory.uucp> vicki@emory.uucp (Vicki Powers) writes:
=This got me thinking -
=is this habit of sending textbooks to academics contributing to the high cost?

Yes and no.  A few years ago, many oublishers not only stopped sending
unsolicited texts, they stopped sending solicited ones as well! 
However, they quickly realized that they were stopping their best advertising.

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.

Pete

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