Xref: utzoo sci.math:4996 sci.physics:5027 comp.edu:1486 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,comp.edu Subject: Re: the high cost of text books! Message-ID: <4959@bsu-cs.UUCP> 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) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 11 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. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP:!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi