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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Feb 13, 2022 17:22:58 GMT
JustKevin wrote: "Indeed, but that's not what I meant. How can the price of a book on Amazon be too low? Who says that? Lulu or Amazon? As I said, mine there, and millions of others, are far lower than $35. Even free." Yes, it's puzzling. I understood Lulu asked Amazon, and Amazon answered that they couldn't make any profit on this title given the manufacturing cost since their profit was a percentage of my royalties. I don't believe it's true. I now remember a French sinologist who wrote "The Roots of Old Chinese". He published its first edition with Amazon; now it's published by John Benjamins. He thought that 50€ would be an honest price. Amazon compelled him to sell it over 80€. Now, in the John Benjamins Edition, it costs 119.84€. <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> I have the impression some scholarly books are artificially construed as precious by making them expensive. Could it be a trick to prevent the spread of knowledge or just a commercial gimmick?
'Educational' books, often told by some course tutor to buy them (and their own works of course) used to be based on the writing effort that goes in to them, printing costs, and the number of people likely to buy them. Often not many. Many students often sell used ones to the next input of students. One of the reasons they often get 'updated on' on the covers (often a comma may have been moved  ) |
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Post by potet on Feb 13, 2022 21:01:18 GMT
Awesome photograph, Potet!!  I'll bet it was thrilling to receive that from a reader! My heart would lift on eagle's wings. Yes, BlueAndGold, I was all the more flattered as it was on FaceBook, so that many people could see it, and "like" the post. |
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Post by potet on Feb 13, 2022 21:07:25 GMT
'Educational' books, often told by some course tutor to buy them (and their own works of course) used to be based on the writing effort that goes in to them, printing costs, and the number of people likely to buy them. Often not many. Many students often sell used ones to the next input of students. One of the reasons they often get 'updated on' on the covers (often a comma may have been moved ) Yes, it's the captured audience trick - the students are compelled to buy the latest edition of the instructor's manual. LOL |
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Post by lonny on Feb 21, 2022 19:49:39 GMT
Well this is the meaning of the word www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/didactic In what way do you mean it specifically? However, you cannot really dictate what books people buy, by isolating a particular one from the mass market. On Amazon, the publication date is displayed anyway, but a more recent date does not always mean the most recent information, and by the time many books get published, it's out of date anyway. Kevin, in general didactic means "of or pertaining to teaching." Thus manuals, grammars, lexicons, guides, textbooks, and anything useful for teaching, or pertaining to a narrow and specialized field, would be "Didactic."
Someone who is self-taught is referred to as an "autodidact."
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Feb 21, 2022 21:37:26 GMT
Well this is the meaning of the word www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/didactic In what way do you mean it specifically? However, you cannot really dictate what books people buy, by isolating a particular one from the mass market. On Amazon, the publication date is displayed anyway, but a more recent date does not always mean the most recent information, and by the time many books get published, it's out of date anyway. Kevin, in general didactic means "of or pertaining to teaching." Thus manuals, grammars, lexicons, guides, textbooks, and anything useful for teaching, or pertaining to a narrow and specialized field, would be "Didactic."
Someone who is self-taught is referred to as an "autodidact."
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Feb 21, 2022 23:54:51 GMT
Personally I'm a manual didactic
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