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From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: expensive TeX book
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Date: 22 Aug 90 05:26:02 GMT
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In article <1990Aug21.212007.6748@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, wald@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David Wald) writes...
>Browsing through a bookstore yesterday, I found something very odd: a
>hardbound book, about half an inch think, called {\em\TeX:
>applications, uses, methods}, ed. Clark, published by Ellis Horwood,
>ISBN 0-13-912296-6.  The book is a short collection of essays on uses
>of TeX.

>This book was selling for $76.  Huh?  Does anyone know anything about
>this?  Does the publisher expect anyone to buy this book?  Is the
>publisher right?  The folks at the store were as confused as I was.

Hey wow, it's in book stores!

The book you've come across is essentially the conference
proceedings from TeX88. Malcolm Clark, the editor is just as
annoyed as the rest of us at the outrageous price (incidentally,
I think it's *supposed* to be $70, but the higher price might be
due to the drop in the value of the dollar).

Will anyone buy the book? Maybe. After all, books of a similar
nature have gone for similarly outrageously high prices (the 2nd
European conference on TeX and Scientific Documentation had a
proceedings volume around $50-some-odd bucks).

I do know at least one person bought a copy.

-dh

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