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From: edgar@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
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Subject: Expensive books (was: expensive TeX book)
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>>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
>
>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).

To all authors:  the time you can assert some influence on the price
of your book is BEFORE you sign the contract.  If the publisher won't
agree to a reasonable price, get another publisher.  There were 3
publishers that wanted to publish my book, so I chose the one that
offered the lowest price, $29.95.  The publishers told me that
lowering the price would not increase the sales, but I didn't
really believe them.

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