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Anything to shake up the industry, its a scam really at the moment.
by metatronscube 15y ago
Anything to shake up the industry, its a scam really at the moment.
- nicwest 15y agohow so?
- Kliment 15y agoYou might want to look at http://www.edutopia.org/textbook-publishing-controversy http://www.edutopia.org/textbook-publishing-controversy for a good summary of what's wrong with that particular industry.
- joshontheweb 15y agoThey are sold at a very high price and then bought back for change. Then minor changes are made to the text so they can release a new edition. Once this happens you can't even sell them back at all. Then all new books must be bought with no real value being added. All this at the expense of students who have very little money as it is.
- mayanksinghal 15y agoFor some reason, even US published books in Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Srilanka, Nepal etc) are a lot cheaper and give good value for money. There are some compromises made in terms of paper and print quality, but I am sure that it is not that big a deterrent for readers. Is anyone aware why a similar price point is not offered in other parts of the world?
- pm90 15y agoessentially because that is not the "true price" that the publisher wants. The strategy of low cost editions was only meant to curb the flagrant piracy that was common in the earlier decades. With the explosion of engineering/technical schools in India, these publishers no longer wanted to forgo a market that they had previously thought was minuscule.
- brudgers 15y agoI suspect that the new model will be, sold for a very high price and never bought back, because that is the way DRM tends to work.
- smackfu 15y ago"then bought back for change" Maybe back in the 90's, but nowadays, there is no reason for anyone to sell a book back to a bookstore for 25% of cover value so the bookstore can resell for 75%. You can sell it yourself on half.com or other services and get the 75% yourself.