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19522729 No.19522729 [Reply] [Original]

Why are academic books so fucking expensive?

>> No.19522740

they're print on demand too

>> No.19522804

>>19522729
They're made to be bought by libraries or with research funds.

>> No.19522977

>>19522729
To make up for lost sales due to libgen

>> No.19523333

>>19522740
This is what I find most discouraging and egregious.

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>>19522729
they don't want you to read them

Look at the prices of Charles Olson's works compared to the works of other poets.

>> No.19523441

>>19522729
Hey this guy is from my university

>> No.19523457

>>19522729

A professor will spend 500 hours writing and editing then will sell 1000 copies if theyre lucky.

If they sold for $20 each they would see a dollar royalty per sale, it just wouldn’t be worth them taking the trouble.

>> No.19523464

>>19522729
Nobody really buys them, aside from libraries, and they have to make a profit somehow so they sell them at high prices.

>> No.19523468

>>19523441
Do you call him T-man

>> No.19523479

I was looking for books on the history of cartography and volume 1 alone for the University of Chicago press one was $399

There are 6 volumes

>> No.19523490

>>19523479
>history of cartography
>man makes map
>man makes prettier map
>map makes satellite
>satellite makes prettier map than man
there, saved you $2400.

>> No.19523583

>>19523468
nah haha we just call him Tollefsen, but that's a good idea. Maybe call him Triple T, or the T-Trinity considering his work in Christian theology.

He's a really cool guy and sort of sticks out at the University of Oslo. Most of the professors here are hardcore analytic philosophy, usually oriented around science, and then he's just doing his own thing.

>> No.19523620

>>19522729
>thick non-fiction paperback
30€
>thick non-fiction paperback (academic)
300€
Pretty sure the difference is that they can nickel-and-dime poor students who are forced to buy them, which lets them price them as high as they want.