Is anyone else as appalled as I am at recent trends in physics textbook
prices? I happened to notice that our college bookstore has Serway &
Faughn, College Physics, selling for $106.70. Now this is one of the
better texts for a non-calculus course, but that's not saying much, and
it's not worth half that price. (As far as I'm concerned, none of the
introductory texts are worth half that price.) Our bookstore manager
believes that these ridiculous prices are at least partly the result of
recent consolidations of publishers.
I'm increasingly finding myself comparing prices when I select a text for
any of my courses. What are you folks doing?
Harvey Picker
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Harvey Picker e-mail:
harvey.picker@mail.trincoll.edu
Physics Department phone: (860)297-2299
Trinity College fax: (860)987-6239
Hartford, CT 06106
USA
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