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by justin66 902 days ago
The thing that's objectionable about your comment As the author claims on his website, if the price is affordable then it is counterfeit is that you're stating the author has said his book is not affordable. That is a lie, the author wrote nothing of the sort. Maybe they believe it, but if they did, they certainly had the option of doing a cheap "international version" of the 3rd edition, as so many textbooks do. They have not chosen to do that.

You're entitled to your opinions about what a book should cost, but facts are facts, and the author did not write what you said they wrote.
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zerr 902 days ago
> the author has said his book is not affordable

Yes, I combined the author's warning with the book's price.

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justin66 902 days ago
Lied.

Inflation of textbook prices is a real problem, finding ways to make them affordable in other countries where people have less to spend is a worthy goal, and you won't aid the cause by falsely attributing words or intentions to people.

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zerr 902 days ago
The citation is a verbatim copy. Combine this to the current book price and you get the actual intention of the author. You are free to call this whatever you want, it does not change the meaning. No need of the word play please.

Also, the refusal to sign such affordable edition of the book is another *ss move from the author.

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justin66 902 days ago
> The citation is a verbatim copy.

Anyone can go look at what the author wrote, and contrast it with the comment that kicked this thread off ("As the author claims on his website, if the price is affordable then it is counterfeit"), and decide whether you've represented the author accurately. I guess if they made it this far into the comment thread without doing that, I'd encourage them to do that.

In addition to being dishonest, your use of logic is pretty bad. That the author indicates a counterfeit of his book might be identified prior to purchase by a price that is "too low to be creditable" is not an admission by the author that he believes his book to be overpriced or unaffordable.

> Also, the refusal to sign such affordable edition of the book is another *ss move from the author.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion, man.

https://artofelectronics.net/lebowski/

But that "affordable edition" of the book was a counterfeit that didn't earn the author or his publisher any money - the money went to a counterfeiter. Increasing the value of the book by signing it wouldn't be most authors' first impulse.

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