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Saturday, April 24, 2010

explanation, please



$1,675?

How exactly does a publisher arrive at this figure?

I would like to know.

7 comments:

  1. At least they offer free shipping!

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  2. This book is bizarre. I can't find it anywhere except Amazon, not even on its publisher's site -- my guess is that it's long out of print, and hard to find.

    The charts and tables in the book aren't printed cleanly, and the binding looks almost handmade:
    http://books.google.com/books?id=22q3QstotOwC

    At least you can read some of the book there. :-)

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  3. Equally interesting are the four new ones starting at $905, whereas the three used ones start much higher at $2046.26 (to the penny!). Are we to suppose that someone's marginal notes cause such an increase in the value of the product?

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  4. Evidently the publisher is an academic imprint. The tome is nearly two thousand pages long.

    It's indicated as being available 7/22/04, so it's not exactly hot off the press. I guess if you were waiting for it to come out it paperback, you're out of luck.

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  5. He's a UK whole language guru so if the cost of the book means it never gets sold that's a good thing!

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  6. I just thought they were poor at arithmetic and misplaced the decimal. $16.75 sounds about right.

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  7. Well, that makes sense.

    Whole language book, looking at the number as a whole, not concerned with exact numbers or anything, what's a few zero's here or there.

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