Comments | forsythferret: Math is Delicious

forsythferret

Math is Delicious

Aug 21, 2006 22:26

But fucking expensive. How the crap are school books $160?! Okay, I know part of how, low print runs, printing's expensive, multiple authors to pay, and locked in inflexible demand they can charge whatever the fuck they want to for them. But seriously. A hundred and sixty fucking dollars ( Read more... )

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forsythferret August 22 2006, 15:32:27 UTC

A good textbook could be. Especially if I were to get transported back in time or something where I'd have to rebuild modern science via it. But as that won't happen and I'm here where texbooks are common and mass-produced, there doesn't seem to be any reasonable reason to have texbooks be QUITE so expensive. I know from hanging around with comic people that printing's expensive, and these are thick books, with multiple authors who probably had to put in a lot of time, and with low-ish print runs. But I think the captive audience factor is the biggest one in the texbooks being so damned expensive. Demand's inflexible, so the prices can be whatever.