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Originally Posted by HarryT
The cost of doing business varies dramatically in different markets. A manufacturer has to charge a price which reflects local market conditions. It's unrealistic to charge the same for a textbook in a third-word country as in the US or Western Europe.
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It is absolutely
unconscionable for undergraduate texts to cost as much as they do. Case in point:
Fundamentals of Aerodynamics
$186.19 for the 5th edition. I don't remember the authors for my chemistry text, but that one came out with a new edition every single year. For a basic text that has been common knowledge for at least 100 years.
It is simply ethically wrong in my eyes to charge undergraduate students this much for a required text, particularly when viewed as one of four to five texts needed for that term.