Re: Book buyers (was Re: Today's jaw dropper)

[David Dockstader <DRDOCK00@UKCC.UKY.EDU>]

Another suggestion for intro level texts is prison librarys.  Most prisons
have educational programs and a very limited selection of books.  They often
have limited space too so they won't want a truck load of books.

On Tue, 7 Oct 1997 19:08:30 -0600 Dewey Dykstra, Jr. said:
> One of the things we do with unwanted examination copies of texts is to
> offer them to area science teachers and their students.  They seem to be
> highly valued by these folks and are unlikely to make much dent in the
> sales of these books otherwise since both populations are unlikely to have
> bought new copies of any current text anyway and the students are not all
> that likely to have picked up the same book they will have as a text in a
> college course.
>
> We hand these books out once every school year when the teachers and their
> students come for something we call Science Competition Day.
>
> Dewey
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