Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Let's try to roll back the SF price increase rip-off! Message-ID: <1613@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 14:15:17 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1613 Posted: Thu Sep 19 14:15:17 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 13:15:30 EDT References: <1355@hound.UUCP> Reply-To: wmartin@brl-bmd.UUCP Distribution: net Organization: USAMC ALMSA, St. Louis, MO Lines: 22 Of course, there are some of us around that bought books in the 50's or so that believe that 35 cents is an elegant sufficiency for a paperback book price... I seem to find plenty to read at the library, by buying books for a few cents each at yard sales and book fairs & trading those in at used book stores to get specific items I want, and by getting stuff from the paperback-exchange rack here at work. (Every workplace ought to have one of those latter -- even if your organization's library isn't interested, or you work at a place with no library, you can start one yourself. Just bring in a dozen books and stack them somewhere with a sign saying "Take some -- leave some" or the like. There are actually some fools out there that *throw away* books after reading them! If it is easy enough, those people will participate too, and bring in stock for exchange.) Anyway, if more people were like me, and didn't pay the insane prices that are asked these days for paperbacks, the price levels would stay down, and the publishers would be forced to cut costs to keep them there. Anybody who pays list price for books is part of the problem, not part of the solution... Will Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com