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Originally Posted by HarryT
The problem is though, speaking as a former textbook author myself, that textbooks are very expensive to produce, and have a very small target audience, which is not particularly price-sensitive. Halve the price of a textbook, and you probably won't sell noticeably more copies. I'm afraid the economics of textbook publishing mean that you're never going to see $10 physics textbooks (my former field).
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When I was a student the audience was price sensitive. If it was cheaper to pay for copying the book using relatively expensive copying machines then people got together and did that. Sometimes not even buying one book because they could borrow the book from the library to copy.