What price scientific books
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.