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<blockquote data-quote="War Golem" data-source="post: 172683" data-attributes="member: 142">I'd have to agree that college textbooks are not the best apples-to-apples comparison for RPG materials, for exactly the reason given - for the most part, I didn't have much choice in buying those books. They were required to pass the class, so I bought them. My experience with this was over 10 years ago, and even then the new textbooks were running $40-$100+; and used books were frequently not as cheap as you would have thought.I think a better comparison when strolling through Barnes &amp; Noble, Amazon, or any of the large booksellers, would be everything in the &quot;Computers&quot; aisle. A range of highly technical vs. more prose-oriented books, some with high end color graphics, some all black-and-white. There's all kinds there, and many are not geared towards the computer professional. And further, this, like RPGs, is a highly segmented market - everyone has their favorite graphics program, or programming language, or web editor, or server OS, or whatever... and usually doesn't spend a lot of time or money on the others. So you end up with a lot of niche products fighting it out for the $$ of a select few interested parties.The average price ranges for the books in this section are significantly higher than for RPG products (and computer books are rarely hardback, at that).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="War Golem, post: 172683, member: 142"] I'd have to agree that college textbooks are not the best apples-to-apples comparison for RPG materials, for exactly the reason given - for the most part, I didn't have much choice in buying those books. They were required to pass the class, so I bought them. My experience with this was over 10 years ago, and even then the new textbooks were running $40-$100+; and used books were frequently not as cheap as you would have thought. I think a better comparison when strolling through Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or any of the large booksellers, would be everything in the "Computers" aisle. A range of highly technical vs. more prose-oriented books, some with high end color graphics, some all black-and-white. There's all kinds there, and many are not geared towards the computer professional. And further, this, like RPGs, is a highly segmented market - everyone has their favorite graphics program, or programming language, or web editor, or server OS, or whatever... and usually doesn't spend a lot of time or money on the others. So you end up with a lot of niche products fighting it out for the $$ of a select few interested parties. The average price ranges for the books in this section are significantly higher than for RPG products (and computer books are rarely hardback, at that). [/QUOTE]

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