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From: root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: How many copies would YOU buy?
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 19:34:07 EDT
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Ok, the suggestion that universities set themselves up to provide
their own copies gives me an idea: How about requiring (or at
least 'suggesting') a $N royalty to Gnu Inc. (?)

Here at BU we just usually use a local (private) copy center
for such things. I'd just tell them the situation, come to
a price and ask them to send the difference. I think they
charge about 3 or 4c a page, so a 200 page manual for $10
or $12 would have a few dollars royalty worked in, sounds
reasonable to me. Also distributes the administration/nuisance.
(Obviously I have to assume they are honest, I think they are,
too much business at stake if nothing else.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University

Of course, you definitely lose the volume savings of offset.