A Note about the Cost of the Class Notes
The cost of the class notes in the bookstore is outrageously high.
(I'll give you the first portion of the notes for free, and also supply you with
some supplementary material
throughout the semester.) It used to be that I
was able to make the copies at the copy shop place here on campus, and
sell them to the students for less than 4 cents a page. Now, since the
prices charged by the copy people have gone up, it would be more, but
still less than 5 cents a page ... if I was allowed to do like I did in
the past.
The way it works now is that I'm required to distribute them through the
bookstore at over 12 cents a page. Neither I
nor my department is making any money off of the notes, but obviously
someone is (since I could give them to you for under 5 cents a page if I
was allowed to do so). As it turns out, two different groups are making
a profit: one outfit actually makes the copies, and charges too much for
doing so, and then the bookstore adds on 25% just for putting the notes
on their shelf and selling them to you.