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From: Laurent Hodges <lhodges@IASTATE.EDU>
The cost of textbooks is worrisome to me. We had a lecturer plan to use
Publishers are just as much an obstacle to the adoption and use of innovative texts as anyone else. They won't push what they don't think will sell. At a conference about two years ago, one rep (not from Wiley, but another well-known publisher) told me that textbooks that stray from the status quo typically won't get picked up by a major publisher ONLY because they know it won't sell in great quantities. This is a disgrace. I see this as a big reason authors are hesitant to create truly innovative textbooks.
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