[Milton-L] Kerrigan, Rumrich, Fallon edn.

[M J (Mike) Logsdon]

> I would agree. Texts in the humanities are not the most expensive my undergrads have to buy. Those is business, the sciences, economics and the like are far more expensive than ours, and students are often compelled to also buy the accompanying software or cd-rom bundled with the actual books. I am told by students, these have a quicker cycle of revision than English texts. 
> 
> Text sales reps are sometimes less than forthcoming about projected prices of new books. I remember a colleague, upon finding that a 90 page paperback he had ordered for a class thinking 'it would be nice for them to have,' i.e., not the main text, would cost $45.00 [this was several years ago], told them not to buy it, and wrote an angry letter to the publisher, who blandly said that specialist books had to be priced high to make a profit.
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> I think a lot of publishers of college texts are lower than a snake's belly.

Golly.  I hope a non-academic here hasn't started something.  Especially 
because I know something of the need to support what is important.  I 
operate privately in the world of traditional jazz CDs and the necessity 
of keeping interest alive via advertising and sales.  But when you come 
right down to it, it's always "what's the cost?"  Even recently, I did 
my first Amazon.com .mp3 download.  I saved money, but in the end I was 
still left with a file of digital files that had nothing to do with the 
original album, people involved, etc.  Funny how it all relates.

I always prided myself in college for having very small book expenses. 
But I never lost sight of those in other subjects who had to sell the 
farm just to keep going.

Sigh.