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...read with interest the letter titled “Bookstores, Not Publishers, To Blame For High Prices” (April 19). Textbook prices are high, but the selling price of a book begins with the publisher cost. The publisher sets the baseline cost to a retailer which includes a mark-up to cover the publisher’s costs of development, royalties, marketing, printing and a profit. The campus bookstore is a retailer and will take the publisher’s cost and add a mark-up that hopefully covers the store’s costs of ordering, receiving, selling...
...agree that textbook prices are high, but the blame for high prices is unfairly placed on the bookstores. All the players in the textbook distribution chain—publishers, professors, administrators and booksellers—have to work closer and more efficiently to ensure that students get the best value and price when purchasing textbooks...
Share the Blame...
...lawyers become more concerned with process than values and purpose because these are irrelevant to the case, then law schools must share some of the blame," Fisher added. "Our problem is how can you teach law and still keep purpose in mind...
...lawyers become more concerned with process than values and purpose because these are irrelevant to the case, then law schools must share some of the blame," Fisher added. "Our problem is how can you teach law and still keep purpose in mind...