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textbook prices

From: "Harvey S. Picker" <harvey.picker@MAIL.TRINCOLL.EDU>
Subject: Textbook prices

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.

Harvey, you might want to ask your bookstore manager about the size of his
markup. From what I understand, the average is around 40%.

Bob Beichner