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Re: whether prices are excessive.
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:35:06 -0700
________________________________________ From: Dennis Allison [drallison () gmail com] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 11:22 AM To: David Farber Cc: ip Subject: Re: [IP] whether prices are excessive. For IP if you wish: Mary makes the case for electronic textbooks. She breaks the textbooks cost into segments (retailer 2, author 1, publisher 1, printer 1, and wholesaler 1) and then assumes a $60 price for the text--a bit misleading since textbooks frequently cost a lot more than that. (Hennessey and Patterson lists at $85, the Dragon book at $106). If textbooks books were available electronically for download, the retailer/printer/wholesaler segments would mostly disappear and the overall cost would be on the order of $20. ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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