Xref: utzoo sci.math:4833 sci.physics:4890 comp.edu:1450 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!johnm From: johnm@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (John Murray) Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,comp.edu Subject: Re: How to beat the high cost of text books! Keywords: cheap text books Message-ID: Date: 19 Nov 88 20:58:54 GMT References: <2219@cbnews.ATT.COM> Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 17 In article <2219@cbnews.ATT.COM>, lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes: > Yet another quarter passes at Ohio State University where I pay > a lot of money for a book that is hardly used. So I figure there > has to be a better way ... > Why not have a Cheap Textbook Foundation? . . . Why not abolish the publishers' restrictions on importing textbooks into the US? So-called "International Editions" of many common US textbooks are produced by the same publishing corporations for sale in Europe and elsewhere, and cost maybe one quarter the price of the US edition. This is not related to copyright loopholes, as far as I know. Nor is it because of any direct government subsidy of textbook publishing. It seems to be simply a way of shafting the US student, who is accustomed to paying inordinate amounts of money for education in general. - John Murray (My own opinions, etc.)