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Attributing the book's longevity to "availablity of new copies" is tautologous.
by mjd 12y ago
Attributing the book's longevity to "availablity of new copies" is tautologous.
- jmount 12y agoNo, it isn't. Some books that would continue to sell have great trouble due to the publisher not supplying copies for a period. Lovasz's "Combinatorial Problems and Exercises" was one such book which North Holland essentially "held out of print" by refusing to make more copies available at a reasonable price (and I hear refusing to admit it was out of print). This went on for years until a new edition came out under AMS Chelsea.