Christopher Crockett wrote:
>
>Question for Patrick (and anyone else):
>
>At what price would *you*, personally, consider buying a copy?
>
>Surely Earlham would pick it up at $450, while not even considering
>it at $ 45,000.
>
>It being a largish planet, there are a *lot* of Earlhams out there.
>To say nothing of individual scholars like Patrick (and, what, a third
>of this list?) who would seriously consider having such an
>enormous resourse for their very own (*imagine!*).
>
>How many $45,000 copies are the publishers thinking of selling?
Earlham could buy two whole librarians for that kind of dough, and I'm the
only person on campus who'd ever use it.
I'd pay $500-$1000 out of my own pocket for it. More, if I had a better
salary (I'd probably have to sell one of my children to get even the $500.)
__________________________________
Patrick J. Nugent
Department of Religion
Earlham College
Richmond, Indiana 47374 USA
(765) 983-1413
[log in to unmask]
__________________________________
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|