Seeing Mahler: Music and the Language of Antisemitism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
This is what happens when you say “whatever” to questions about your cover, folks. (Also: $56.95 for a 216-page ebook? I think someone’s been in academia too long.)
Seeing Mahler: Music and the Language of Antisemitism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
This is what happens when you say “whatever” to questions about your cover, folks. (Also: $56.95 for a 216-page ebook? I think someone’s been in academia too long.)
It’s probably the textbook for the course he teaches. He just decided to cut out the middle-man. Students will be happy he priced it under $60.
How much you wanna bet it’s a mandatory textbook for his class?
Definitely penned by the prof, or someone’s getting a hefty cut there. I had to pay well over $100 for a textbook in college; later I spotted the same book in B. Dalton’s for about $40.
My favorite professor that I met (not one I had unfortunately) was the one who said, “You know what? None of the $100 dollar programming textbooks are any better than C++ For Dummies. Why don’t I just assign that, and let the kids keep the extra $85?”
Ah yes, I remember B. Dalton’s and Waldenbooks – good times from a bygone era!
You can chalk the high cost of the e-book up to the publisher. (Academic authors don’t get to dictate pricing to the publisher – nor are we making any money by assigning the text to our own classes, or in fact even on royalties — unless the book is a textbook assigned to required, very large undergraduate classes, which take it from me this is not).
I do agree it’s not a very pleasant book cover and the author would have assented to using it. But she died in 2012, so is beyond our censure.