Re: Useage of Perl up or down?

[Elaine -HFB- Ashton]

John Adams [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>----------
*>> Besides, students tend to buy used if they can and sell
*>> them back at the end of the semester.
*>
*>True and significant in the case of textbooks. True but much less
*>significant in the case of trade books bought as tutorial aids. Of course,
*>there are more textbooks than trade books sold at college book stores
*>(usually at a higher margin, too), but the study aids/tutorial/general
*>trade market is not insignificant.

You haven't been to a modern college campus bookstore recently have you?
Barnes and Nobel *is* the campus bookstore in a lot of places and they buy
back 95% of the course books, even trade as the professors may use them
over the course of a year or two. I don't know many hard core language
textbooks these days...almost all of them are trade.

http://stores.efollett.com/eFollett/standard/index.gtml?dirName=wustl

Is the wustl.edu bookstore...it's a Follett's.

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