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What price scientific books?

APR 01, 1952
Many specialized scientific books that should be published for the general good of science, says the author, cannot be accepted for publication because of high printing costs and their limited audiences. What is needed, he proposes, is a research program carried out by the publishers themselves that will aim at reduced costs and increased speed in printing scientific material.
Curtis G. Benjamin

Whenever two publishers of scientific books get together for more than a few minutes they always find themselves speaking gravely and shaking their heads dolefully. They compare notes on what is happening to the book industry in general and to them in particular. The burden of their complaint, of course, is the steadily rising spiral of costs and prices. They have no trouble in agreeing that its rate of ascent is leading the whole industry rapidly to ruin—upward in this case, not downward.

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Curtis G. Benjamin. McGraw‐Hill Book Company, New York City.

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