Re: The High Cost of Learning

Dave Postles (pot@leicester.ac.uk)
Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:43:15 +0000

For those of you who are contemplating using Peter Laslett's _The World We
Have Lost_ in a course next year, please be advised that the paperback
edition which last year cost $12.95 is now being sold for $54 by
Macmillans. This came as a shock to my undergraduates and a check of
Books in Print reveals that the new printing is unpriced so that there
was no way to discover in advance that the price had been raised over
400%. Caveat Emptor.
Mark Kishlansky
Harvard University
mkishlan@husc.harvard.edu