I had felt that putting all the textbooks on an iPad and selling them for about $50 a pop would bring the cost down considerably and still allow enough margin for everybody to make their money and still not ding the student so badly. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail.
"Godfrey DiGiorgi" <gdigio...@gmail.com> wrote: >Ebooks could help solve some of this. Most of the cost involved in >marketing textbooks has to do with the inordinate amount of waste in >the distribution system. > >On Tuesday, August 10, 2010, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I was once interested in taking a course in English, (Elixzbithan Period), >> History, It fulfilled a core requirement and looked interesting. The cost >> of books on the reading list amounted to > $800.00 for used books, (this was >> in 1976!), the other course that fulfill the requirement was an American >> History course. The entire reading list cost $30.00, for about the same >> number of books. I decided to take the American History course. >> >> On 8/10/2010 9:35 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >> >> I cannot believe what a rip-off textbook prices are. I get $300 from the VA >> to buy textbooks & one book is $158.00 ... and that's the friggin' PAPERBACK >> version! >> >> >> >> >> -- >> "Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like >> 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?" >> --Jay Leno >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > >-- >Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >PDML@pdml.net >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
