From: Jason Catena <jason.catena@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Principles of Operating Systems
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:50:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d50d7d460910131850x1b406048y9ad717dac48fa089@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60910131805t78687174n1e084aff9d895736@mail.gmail.com>
>> I know you said you bought yours for $10, but why is the book $101.60 in
>> the first place?
>>
>> Jake Todd
>
> Why is any college textbook ridiculously priced?
Supposedly captive audience, and a monopoly purveyor. Usually only
the university bookstore sells the latest edition, which professors
are pressured to use.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-14 1:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-13 19:24 Roman Shaposhnik
2009-10-13 17:57 ` Jacob Todd
2009-10-14 1:05 ` David Leimbach
2009-10-14 1:50 ` Jason Catena [this message]
2009-10-14 4:01 ` blstuart
2009-10-14 4:47 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-10-14 5:11 ` blstuart
2009-10-13 21:36 ` Josh Wood
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