In a message dated 7/26/03 12:06:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, louie@xxxx writes: > What I *DO* have a problem with is DMC-Houston trying to be the sole > distributor of the book. It should be available to everyone, everywhere The book business is pretty ruthless. Any book that isn't selling by the wagonload is yanked and ends up out of print and in cheapy book outlets, unless it's a perennial classic. And even then, bookstores want to buy them at half the cover price to make a profit. The DMCH price is reasonable. For them to sell it at half price to bookstores seems a money-losing proposition. BTW, if you give a book, even a brand new one, to a library, they will only put it out if they think there is interest. Otherwise, straight to the out of circulation booksale with a 25 cent price tag. My son just picked up a $100.+ organic chemistry book that way. Wayne 11174 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]