Why Veeky Forums books cost ten times more than Veeky Forums books?

Why Veeky Forums books cost ten times more than Veeky Forums books?

The information is 10x more useful

Pretty much

>be math major
>half of prefessors use springer texts

Ah yeah.

Honestly, they tend to have more pictures and graphs.
Coloured stuff costs much more than black&white.

It depends on the Veeky Forums books and where you buy your Veeky Forums books desu. But all in all, it's still a supply/demand thing. Veeky Forums books have a wider readership (because many people read Veeky Forums books for fun) than Veeky Forums books so many bookshops sell them and the prices tend to go down.
Veeky Forums books (especially graduate texts, monographs, acts of conferences and things like that) are a niche market and are mostly bought by university libraries that can afford them, which is why editors price them the way they do.
That being said, for pretty much the same reason, Veeky Forums academic books can also be very pricey (because not many people would read, and especially not buy, comparative analyses of obscure philosophers for fun)

When you buy a Veeky Forums book you are buying information. When you buy a Veeky Forums book you are buying entertainment.


In my mind it only makes sense for information to be much more valuable than entertainment.

But isn't entertainment more valuable in our world?
Almost all celebrities are consisted of entertainers.. Athletes, actors, directors, singers etc all earn more in a year than a researcher makes in a lifetime.
A music album easily earns ten times the prize of the nobel prize, which is a once in a lifetime prize even if, a scientist is able to earn

It also counts for black and white books.

Entertainment is an elastic good
Information is an inelastic good

racket run by textbook companies

jewish owned book racket bringing in billions for some bounded pieces of paper.

and before any retard goes HURR DURR IT PAYS FOR PEOPLE TO WRITE THOSE BOOKS, like 0.00000001% of those profits go to the writers.

People use debt and government subsidies as mediums of payment to purchase textbooks as part of their tuition. The price mechanism reflects that economic reality with the demand curve shifting to the right because of a society-wide indoctrination campaign to push everyone through university.

>information is objectively valuable inelastic good

Veeky Forums is smelling its own farts again as expected. There is no unique and inherent monetary value to textbooks, as much as university sycophants here want to believe. The information you're buying could be 30 dollars or it could be 170 dollars whether you're buying used in mint condition paperback or new hardcover. You can get great discount for a lightly older edition of basic knowledge that has been around for centuries. Textbooks are not an effective way for reader new to the subject in acquiring information and half the time you don't need them unless the professor is a Jew and assigns select questions from the book. They're mostly useful in referencing information at later date.

Overall you're dealing elitist Jews who will put esoteric research papers, that no one will read, behind pay-walls.

Seller's market.

For real, also their main claim to the price is "muh printing" but it doesn't explain the digital copies that don't require physical copies.

What's with Veeky Forums and the anti-Semitism? It's disgusting

>demand curve shifting to the right

this is certainly a factor. another is the way the industry is structured. for big classes (think econ 101 at State U) textbook companies will send sales reps to try to convince the professor to adopt their book, just like in the pharmaceutical industry. "well no problem, i'll just buy it used on amazon". well for this class you need the 12th edition instead of the 11th edition where the only difference is that we changed some of the numbers in the exercises, oh and also you need the online homework code that comes with the book that can't be reused or resold. the textbook companies have a captive market so they can literally charge any price that won't lead to rioting in the streets

Shut up Juden

THIS

jews are evil

they have no respect for life

Entertainers get funding mainly because of ads, they increase demand for certain products

10x0=0 user.

Mostly market power. The textbook industry is a long way from even approximating a perfectly competitive market. Oligopolies always make shit more expensive.

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Popsci does the same for information

Jews get a disproportionate amount of Nobel prizes, which makes Veeky Forums salty

Academic Veeky Forums books can be pretty pricy too. I know that history monographs can run anywhere from 50 to 200 dollars. Unless you're talking fiction, in which case it's because they're made for wide audiences amd the writers often aren't PhDs with something significant to say

nobel prizes dont mean shit.

obama got one for doing literally nothing.

some transnigger faggot got one for doing nothing well.

nobel prizes are kike owned and kike run.

fields medals on the other hand arent so bad and there's nothing wrong with jews winning that disproportionately since it actually means something. jews who dedicate their lives to advancing science and mathematics are perfectly fine.

You're right, Mr Fox, those grapes were shit anyway.

but those aren't real nobel prizes

Nobel Prizes are a big deal, but the Nobel Peace Prize is meaningless. The Peace Prize is given out seemingly at random and is more based in politics than achievements.

Disgusting kike spotted
>>>/jidf/

News flash idiot, the Nobel prize for peace and literature are sociopolitical. Of course they're fucking useless, the last award that had any real meaning to it was given to MLK because he exposed the U.S. for their bullshit and made blacks look decent for once. But the committee still didn't give Ghandi an award before he got offed so they completely lost all legitimate cred afterwards.

That's why the only nobel awards that count anymore are in the sciences because you at least had to make a career and trail blaze in something before you can even be nominated.

You can't get nominated and win in the sciences for being a little school girl in the middle east who nearly got head shot because some ass pained extremist men didn't want another female getting educated.

>But isn't entertainment more valuable in our world?
Only up to the point where you need life saving treatment. At that point science becomes pri one. Unfortunately for the late interested science projects take time to come to fruition. A pharma project can easily take 20 years.

It started in /b/ as a cliche for edgy coolness. Then it spread like mold to the rest of Veeky Forums. Hardly anyone here have met Jews. What is weird is that Jews are also among the regulars here and in /g/.

This.
Pauling's chemistry nobel was well deserved; his peace one was a crock.

>since it actually means something
That's right good goyim, it's pure coincidence. Science and math soitainly aren't millennia-old talmudic conspiracies to destroy western civilization or nothin