On 10 August 2010 21:35, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > I cannot believe what a rip-off textbook prices are. I get $300 from the VA > to buy textbooks & one book is $158.00 ... and that's the friggin' PAPERBACK > version!
Case Study #1: When I was studying in the UK I had to buy a Nuclear Physics textbook. It was written by an American and published by an American publisher, so I headed off to Amazon.com to order it, sure that it would be a lot cheaper than in the UK. Nope, it cost exactly DOUBLE on the US Amazon than it did on the UK branch, with shipping costs being negligible in both cases. Given that the book had to be imported into the UK (with the associated tax and business costs), and in small quantities given the small number of graduate Nuclear Physics students when compared to the US, I never understood why the difference was so large, and never again looked for textbooks on Amazon.com Case Study #1: When my wife was doing her graduated school in the US, I would routinely buy her textbooks in the UK due to their much cheaper prices. Most of these books were written by American scholars and published by American companies. Like the Italians say: Boh! --M. -- \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
