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21st September 2022, 07:50 PM #16SENIOR MEMBER
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I heard a 'funny' story about book prices last week. The topic was the perils of 'algorithms'.
A grad student wanted an obscure book. He found it online at an eyewatering price.
He went to his lecturer who decided to investigate.
Seller A has a copy of the book. They priced it and put it online.say, $100.Seller B wanted to be seen in the market as being able to supply anything required. So, they advertised the book at seller As price plus 30%, $130. If anyone wants it, they will buy it from seller A and still make a profit.
Seller A has a policy of always pricing 10% below what other sellers advertises. So, seeing the book at $130, they reprice from $100 to $117. Seller B repriced to $160. And so seller A repriced to $144. And so it went...
The grad saw it priced at around $2000000. (yes, million).
Before it stopped it reached 23 million...
True story apparently...
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26th September 2022, 09:28 AM #17GOLD MEMBER
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I think changes made to the revised and updated versions apply, especially if there are updated figures or pictures - those aren't free to take. But the original editions here generally are out of copyright.
If you run across C.S., he's usually got some comment about more being added to a newer edition to encourage buying in print.
Toolemera press is someone in the US who does this stuff for a living and so did his dad as far as I know, so there's not going to be any legal issues with PDFs he shares. It's entirely possible that if he decides to print a book current print, he may take down the PDF.
I could be wrong, but I think his reprints (I have a few) are a lot less flavored by him or his group than the schwarz - they're just reprints without some of the pretentious bits, but they can also be esoteric in some cases.
Any time there is big discussion of a book (and hayward was one that everyone was on about a few years ago) and it's not in reprint, you'll find scumbags putting up any copy they can find at an old library for three or four figures.
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27th September 2022, 08:19 PM #18New Member
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What a coincidence! I was clearing my garage recently and found the same book. I hadn’t seen it for 57 years since I was at school. Charles Haywood wrote many of the woodworking books back then. I still have some of the tools I made from his book.
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