[OS X TeX] Why does this hang so = [OT] electronic books

[Victor Ivrii]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Alain Schremmer
<schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:
>

> Because money has become an end in itself.
>
> Similarly, during the past thirty years, the profits of the "elementary
> textbooks" publishing industry have gone steadily up while the ranking of US
> students in TIMMS and later PISA have gone steadily down.
>


Alain, every time when "why books and journals are so expensive" talk
comes sooner or later someone from publishing industry pops-up
claiming that they are either making no profit or even losing money. I
suspect that it may be the case as a waste is enormous. Any university
professor gets free desk copies for all involved in the course (TA
included) and some promotional copies he/she never uses or even never
opens.

Honestly I don't know is it a greed or monstrous waste

Victor
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