I just purchased a Baird's (16th ed) for $70. I thought based on the availability it was a decent price. It was the cheapest. I was looking at other books on barnes and nobles out of print site and found about a dozen with variety of editions. It just seems outrageous some of the prices. I can't recall the edition, but someone was selling one for over $400!!! I couldn't believe it.
It just doesn't seem hard to mass produce a large paperback book that has everything that has ever been contained in all the editions. A publisher should buy the rights to it and get it done. I'm sure they would get their money back.
I'm sure there are people out there that would pay the price of a used textbook for something like this.
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