The Economy

[--Pete]

Hi,

I think I read that some had tried, but it was too expensive to have everything reprinted.

Another example is the University of Vilnius; it used to teach in Polish.

America-centric thinking. In almost every advanced course at most of the European universities, it is common to teach from texts that are not in the language of the country containing the university. Or at least this was the case until recently. The cost of translation was relatively minor, but the cost of setting and printing a book was too great to be covered by the small number of sales of advanced texts. With the computer driven optical printing techniques and the advances in the (automated) soft cover bindings, those costs have come down, perhaps even to the point that it would pay to print Supersonic Flow and Shock Waves (Courant & Friedrichs) in, say, Finnish.

And, BTW, why are you people feeding the troll?

--Pete