> Based on inflation, these books should be about $80-90 per volume now (if we assume that $22 in 1977 was a reasonable price). And based on the fact that book

> Based on inflation, these books should be about $80-90 per volume now (if we assume that $22 in 1977 was a reasonable price). And based on the fact that books and other "intellectual" goods may be expensive to create, but only as a one-time investment, and all the years that have passed they should be dirt cheap by now. In fact, they should be in the public domain, if we had something resembling a fair copyright law.