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Originally Posted by HarryT
On the contrary, I am a textbook author myself, and it's textbooks which always will be expensive because they are expensive to produce.
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I am also a textbook author. Now I don't know what the practice is elsewhere, but here in the US after the first year or two of sales of a new book, the author's renumeration drops down to zero due to the huge number of books that end up in the used book market. It would be one thing, if at least the consumer benefited, if the price for the used book would be very cheap. However, the college bookstores charge almost as much for the used book as the for the new book. Of course the bookstore buys the book from the student at a pittance. Neither the publisher nor the author get anything from the used book market. That is one of the reasons the publisher charges so much for the new book. I can thus understand why students would try to get the book for nothing since they are being taken advantage of.