Christopher
You obviously have a lot of ground to make up about the C of E - it is a
very broad church and, yes, does include some moral relativists. I will
not comment on George II being a mass-murderer - out of my period!
But this can be said to his credit, that he gave the Royal Library to the
British Museum, and by that act alone deserving the gratitude of generations of
scholars!
Yes, Oxford do all too rarely publish a reasonably-priced paperback;
but occasionally the oddest things happen - I think I recall you being
sweet reasonableness with someone else's arguments once rather than adopting
your usual cantankerous pose!!!
Gordon
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But the Bede paperback is only £18,
not talking about the PB, Gordon
--can't compare the Apples of HBs with the
Oranges of PBs.
it's agin
God's Law.
and She will be mad.
and your "only" strikes me as a
bit of a Stretch.
no matter what the "common" pricing of books happens
to be, "only" relates to
the customer's pocket book.
i submit that
£18 ain't "only" for a great many of those of us in the 99%
--no matter
what the (undoubted) quality of the item happens to be.
>which for
an academic paperback in UK is these days very cheap
butbut, that's
only because ALL Academic publishers are Gougers.
seems like you've
been beaten around the head and shoulders so much, Gordon,
that you're just
grateful when a Gouging publisher only beats you around
the
shoulders.
Get a Life, man.
G.W. Obama, the present U.S.
prezziedint, might be said to be (so far) less
of
a mass murderer than
George II was, but that doesn't make either one of them
any less of a mass
murderer, does it?
or is Moral Relativism now the Flavor of the Month
over there in the ole C of
E?
>just take a look at the paperback
prices of Cambridge and OUP!!!
my point, eggsactly.
as we did
yesterday, thanks to Bill Shipper, who gave us an example of a
rather
decently priced PB put out/up by (of all places) the OUP --in
what
must
be seen as an unusually Crafty marketing model. (or, maybe
i've been beaten
around the head and shoulders too
much...?)
c
> In a message dated 24/04/2013 14:19:28 GMT
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> From: Revd Gordon Plumb
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> > Lauwers, Michel, ed. La
dîme, l'Église et la société féodale.
> Collection d'études
médiévales de Nice, 12. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012.
> Pp. 634.
EUR 65. ISBN: 978-2-503-54525-7.
>
>
> note the size
of the thing and the price.
>
> i never thought that i
would be championing an established King of Gougers
> publisher
like Brepols for its "relatively reasonable" pricing, but
here
we
> have a 634 page HB for 65 euros (= $84.422401
US).
>
> Brepols "puts up" (in the phrase that its rep at K'zoo
one year used to
me)
> more books than any publisher in Europe
(Springer?), and the physical
> quality
> is consistently
quite high (as is the quality of the subject matter).
>
>
i've not seen their books, but would imagine that the LUP also "puts up"
a
> decent quality product as well.
>
> the new Bede
translation runs 343pp. and sells (or doesn't sell, as the
>
case
> may be) for £75.00 (= $114.503178 US).
>
>
(what's the math on that difference, Bill? --arithmetic gives me a
> headache)
>
>
> is Britain a more expensive
place to run a publishing game than, say,
> Belgium?
>
> i doubt it.
>
> does the Lauwers volume appeal to
a larger potential audience (and thus
> might
> sell
better) than, say, the Bede translation?
>
> i doubt
it.
>
> which one of the two is more likely to be chosen as a
supplementary --or
> even
> a primary-- text book (assuming
that it were available at a reasonable
> price)?
>
>
how many teachers on this list would even *consider* the Lauwers as a
> text, as
> opposed to those who would at least consider
the Bede?
>
>
> how are we to account for the LUP
Gouge, compared to the "more
> reasonable/traditional" Brepols
one?
>
> the Stars?
>
> business
incompetence?
>
> i'm just axing.
>
>
c
>
>
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