I've been wondering about those  prices.
I thought I just had a poor sense of book values.
This was the first really ridiculous one I saw:
http://www.amazon.com/Manual-How-Have-Number-Easy/dp/1899858652/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1289172864&sr=8-3
Well, now I know . . .

Greg

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Justin Glenn Smith  wrote:
> Used book sellers use a program that sets prices on Amazon. Usually it just sets a price near what other's are selling the book for. One of the things the program does is that if you are the only one with a copy for sale (ie. it has no other prices to compare for that title), it sets a crazy high price, just in case it is a collector's item.  So that if more people start offering the same (now inflated in value) book on Amazon, the new prices end up being based on the previous erroneous output of the algorithm. It is common to find obscure but not really that valuable out of print books with stupid pricetags insuring the book will not sell on Amazon because of this dynamic.
>
> Lars Indrek Hansson wrote:
>> That´s funny. I don´t remember it being that expensive, since I almost considered buying it. I payed about
>> 60 euro for The csound book seven years ago and thought ist was expensive then. But after all think of all
>> the Max users that have to pay for the software. We csounders don´t so why not buy a book for (a part of) the
>> money instead?
>>
>> Sounds like something for me though. I´m not exactly interested in emulating acoustic instruments, but I like sounds
>> that sound organic. You can tweak them till they sound like something quite different but still retain their organic feel.
>>
>> Lars
>>
>>
>>> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 06:16:05 -0500
>>> From: dlphillips@woh.rr.com
>>> To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: re csound book gripes
>>>
>>> Lars Indrek Hansson wrote:
>>>> I once stumbled across a book named "Cooking with csound", somewhere
>>>> on the net. Does anyone out there know anything about it?
>>> I've been interested in it for a long while, but its cost is
>>> prohibitive. It needs reprinted and sold for an affordable price.
>>>
>>> It's listed on Google Books, a good preview selection is available. It's
>>> out of print, but Amazon has a used copy (paperback, ~220 pages) listed
>>> for ~$200.00US. Ouch.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> dp
>>>
>>>
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