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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
What a great idea !
Of course, it is plainly obvious that the publishers will realise their social responsibility and support for education, and sell the etexts at very reasonable prices, thus helping hard-pressed students.
In fact they may sensibly offer to sell the texts "on lease", again at a reasonable price, for the length of the student's course, accepting that that is all most will need them for.
It's as plain as the nose on yer face.  |
I think the publisher practices are ridiculous, kind of ...
Look up the net margins for publically traded textbook (wiley,mpearson, ...) companies and you will see numbers around nine percent, which I wouldn't call outlandish. It's clear that, given the current business models the all the publishers tricks keep them in business, and don't create unusual profits. We need to propose another way of producing texts if we want prices to drop.