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Old 11-15-2010, 06:21 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS View Post
I think that the best way to get an impression of what the professor considers normal prices is to look at his last book: "Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States", published: June 13, 2005, prices from Amazon.

Hardcover:
Amazon Price: $95.95
New from: $74.98
Used from: $74.98

Paperback:
Amazon Price $26.36
New from: $23.75
Used from: $20.75
You wouldn't think from the title this would be such a specialized work as the prices would suggest. I do own a few paperbacks I've paid in the $20 range for, either out-of-print (as my most recent such purchase) and hard to find, or a few specialized reference works of interest to me.

General-interest paperbacks, no way do I pay $20. As others have commented, there's plenty out there to read that fits my budget much better, and there are libraries that I'm already paying for via taxes.
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