TC>it was discovered certain parties were getting kickbacks from the book
 TC>publishers through local book stores to change the books.  
A few years ago I was working with a candidate who had been a text book 
salesman. He refered to his role as selling adoptions, getting teachers to 
adopt the books he was selling to be used by the school or in colleges to be 
required reading for a course. At the college level he would furnish the 
teacher many free copies of the text for "evaluation", those copies would end 
up being sold to the students. The teacher would in fact be getting a 
financial incentive to adopt the book. Not a whole lot different from 
supermarkets getting paid for shelf space when a seller wants them to take on 
a new line. I would think that the k-12 market would be much different. And 
at the college level wouldn't the stature of the text be a big factor in 
determining the selection? I just came accross a copy of my son's copy of 
Hauseman and Black (??) Physics text which probably another edition of the 
same book I used back in 1957. I remember suffering through mimeographed 
copies of a math text being written by Rice and Knight as a student in their 
classes. 
Writing a text must be a lot of hard work and given the peer quarterbacking 
it must seem like a thankless job at times. I'll have to add a copy of your 
book to our book collection.
--- Maximus 2.01wb
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