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Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 07:22 PM EST |
Textbooks are often significantly more expensive to print that your typical
novel. Most textbooks have lots of images and illustrations often in color. That
at least doubles the cost of production. Popular textbooks do have respectable
print runs. A long time bestselling textbook may sell millions of copies. A NY
Times Bestseller seems to need to sell only 5,000 copies a week and would seem
to sell around 20-40,000 copies over it's print run. Of course some sell many
many more copies sometimes into the millions. University press books typically
academic books seem to have initial print runs of around 500 copies, unless the
author has a track record.
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Authored by: YurtGuppy on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 08:42 AM EST |
And... this may not be strictly true, but it is my impression that writing a
textbook and then requiring the students to buy it is both a job perk and a
financial incentive.
I don't believe for 30 seconds that in all of the history of Calculus textbooks
since Leibniz there isn't something that would do the job just as well as the
$200 book we were required to buy.
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