Xref: utzoo sci.math:5045 sci.physics:5073 comp.edu:1507 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu!gae 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! Message-ID: <1132@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> Date: 8 Dec 88 20:18:38 GMT References: <684@stech.UUCP> <605@poseidon.ATT.COM> <580@oravax.UUCP> <3466@emory.uucp> <483@mccc.UUCP> Reply-To: gae@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Gerald Edgar) Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math. Lines: 13 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? -- Gerald A. Edgar TS1871@OHSTVMA.bitnet Department of Mathematics gae@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu The Ohio State University gae@osupyr.UUCP Columbus, OH 43210 70715,1324 CompuServe