U.P.E.I. SUN FEB 3,1983
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Explaining The High Cost Of Books i ‘ i ' , 1,
can buy." claims Mr. Stewart. This quality results in orders coming in from all across 7 Canada and the United States. Is there any solution to the high price of books? Mr. Stewart suggested that his store could act as used book dealers if the circumstances allowed. The problen is that Proffesors are constantly changing and updating textbooks Orders resulting in used books being outdated. This up- dating is supposedly neccessary to keep pace with new advances. Incidentally, there are some very good buys on sacme paperbacks, with prices run- ning as low as 65¢ or 75¢ a
$2.00 a book. The real crunch
A quick sampling of stu- would seen to cane at the bor-
dent opinion on the U.P.E.I. 's Bookstore's prices obtained der whichmost books traverse comments such as, " Pretty on . the way from the Amer- high", "Too high", "Pretty ican publishers. The exchange outrageous". Indedd the book— beween American and canadlan store prices would seen to be currency taCkS anOthe-r 3-25 or on the exorbitant side, but 50 Per dOIlar Value on the there are some very good reas— bOOk-
ons for this situation. Rus- The BOOkStore does not
sel Stewart, Bookstore manager make a Prefit from the sales explained the details of the of textbooks. If the Bookstore
situatio. in a recent inter. did want to make a profit, it View. ‘ would have to charge 20 or 25% First of all, one is not more On the book.
going to make one's first However the Bookstore does million in the textbook trade. make a profit of between 15,00— There is a very small and con— and 25,000 dellars a Year
stantly shifted market being WhiCh goes tb the univerSitY: says Mr. Stewart. The profit
catered to. Some textbooks I might sell as low as 400 or 18 made fran the sale of cig- copy. 500 copies. There is a Shor— arettes, candy, clothing, etc. All items which the Bookstore Pat Moore.
tage of paper products and the consequent denand has forced prices sky high. The paper product workers are paid . high wages. titC. Transportation from the producers to U.P.E.I. may cost anywhere from $1.25 to
has been asked to stock by the students.
Some student feel that the store's clothing is excesively priced. The reason— The U.P.E.I. Bookstore only stocks top quality products, "The best you
\ 0m 90% OF WKS FOREIexL q‘ It's a sad state of affairs
when a university such as U.P.E. I. must import over 90% of their would be Canadian.
. textbooks fran a foreign country. The truth is that the vast What happened to Canadian content? majority of (1,133.1, imported You might ask what'_s the fuss textbooks are from the U,s. 13316301111 a £1101?!ng textrfforexample We don't get a mosaic of for— ' is in a orei coun~ - - - - eng e fact is that the 22m. :ggiggglggzr‘gebgfigmwm
' studying the text gets the op- arded by American views, inion of a foreigner- of a men- views which are often cont— ber of a foreign country. In rary to the rest of the this area we would like to thin' world's opinions. that we are dealing with mat- It would seem that the
be open to foreign opinions but it would seen logical the a good share of the opinion
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ters of a scientific fact not opinion. Cannon sense would tell us that the percentage of proven knowledge would out weigh the percentage of opinion in this field. Prob- ably true the amrount of foreign opinion would be small.
What about areas of study in which opinion would seen to out weigh knowledge, take literature or psychology for example. Here, the amount of foreign opinion, often contrary to Canadian ideals is great.
What's wrong with foreign ' opinions? A university should be an arena for a whole world of knowledge, shouldn't it? Yes, it should. A Canadian university should obviously
Americans would have us cornered in every area of the media? Can Canadians possibly maintain a distinct identity under such a bru- tal attack? No!
Its time to resist. Canada needs to have its own media Textbooks are of the out,- nost importance since they often shape our mode of thinking. We should use textbooks of varying opin- ions frcm around the world but Canadian textbooks -
, should be prevalent.
We should‘u’rge book pub- lishers tp publish Canadian textbooks, the govern- ’ ment to assist publish- ers, and Canadians to buy the textbooks.
- Pat Nbore.