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Actually almost all the Indian editions of the book are much more cheaper than its US based price in Dollars. And when you look at the paper quality, it feels l
by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Actually almost all the Indian editions of the book are much more cheaper than its US based price in Dollars. And when you look at the paper quality, it feels like the price is justified.
Also not to look over the fact that both are published by PearsonEd. The US version by Addison-Wesley and the Indian version by Dorling-Kindersley. Both are PearsonEd subsidiaries.
- pmiller2 13y agoIndeed. My current copy of CLRS3 is a like-new Eastern Economy Edition paperback. I paid $20 or $30 for it off Amazon versus $92 list price or $55 on Amazon for the hardcover, and I considered that to be a good deal.
- anuragramdasan 13y agoYes. CLRS I had ordered almost the same time as TAOCP and although I was skeptical at the beginning, I was surprised that it was a good edition. The biggest problem is though, once we've bought the Indian edition, we wont buy the original edition(obviously). This makes it difficult for us to gauge how much off the edition we own is from the original one.
- pmiller2 13y agoI used the Eastern Economy Edition version of CLRS2 in a course I was taking. I never found a difference other than page numbering (which was accurately reflected in the index and table of contents), so I think you're okay on that one. :-)
- LeonidasXIV 13y agoI paid 2€ for CLRS2 when my library threw it out. In pretty good condition, hard cover. Possibly the best deal I ever made.
- philsnow 13y agoA friend of mine purchased the first three volumes of TAoCP for $1 each from a sale at the UCLA engineering library and gave them to me. They're quite scraped up and ugly, but the content is all there :)
- bradleyjg 13y agoPaper quality is apparently just one of the ways they save money. Another seems to be editorial effort.
- davorak 13y agoThat is the part that does not make sense, it does not seem like it would take little to any editorial effort to just reprint the book. Page numbers changing from 33 to 53 as in the OP's case make it seem effort was made but not followed through on.
- zeidrich 13y agoIf they're saving money by using cheap paper, then discarding their stock and reprinting new editions would cut into that considerably.
- wtracy 13y agoMaybe they're condensing it onto fewer pages or spreading it out onto more pages due to changes in page size?
- anuragramdasan 13y agoOr probably they are reducing the physical page size so everything gets pushed forward. I haven't yet seen the original book so I can only speculate.