Jed Clear wrote:
"Richard B. Gilbert" wrote:
Ulrich Windl wrote:
Personally I think for 99$ it's quite expensive (unless quite good) ;-)
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I think you're right about the price.
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I think you misclassified it. If I extrapolate from what I recall paying for
college course books a few decades ago[1], it seems quite reasonable for an
academic text book.
[Pokes around Amazon] Yup, my old freshman calculus text, is going for $149,
new.
-Jed
[1] Was it really that long ago...?
It's been so long I no longer remember what I paid for my college texts!
I was comparing with the prices of some of the computer related books
I've purchased: "sed and awk" Second Edition by Dale Dougherty & Arnold
Robbins, O'Reilly & Associates 406 pages, soft cover $34.95 or "Learning
the Korn Shell" by Bill Rosenblatt, O'Reilly & Associates 336 pages $29.95.
Well, college students have no choice! If they want the course they
must have a copy of the text book. I, OTOH, have a choice and the price
doesn't fit my budget! I would have paid $35 or $40 to see what he
had to say.
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