Re: Textbook prices

[Peter Schoch <pschoch@NAC.NET>]

I too am outraged at the prices!

I have taken to pricing the proposed texts, asking if there are soft
cover copies, and asking if they can be bought in two volumes soft cover
to ease the price.

I recently stopped buying a prewritten lab manual and made one of my
own!  Even with Xeroxing costs, it turns out to be less money.

The land of the monopolies seems to be well and living in our textbooks
vendors.

Peter Schoch

"Harvey S. Picker" wrote:
> Dear Phys-Lers,
>
> 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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