--- Forwarded Message from Cindy Evans <[log in to unmask]> --- >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:10:05 -0400 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >From: Cindy Evans <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #5694 Cheng-Tsui Pricing ------------------ I was also horrified at the prices. I went ahead and spent $443 for the tapes--a big chunk of my modest budget for instructional materials. I told the representative that I am not accustomed to paying for langauge lab tapes and her only explanation was that the market is "different" for Asian languages. Cindy Evans Skidmore College >--- Forwarded Message from "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]> --- > >>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:56:45 -0500 >>From: "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]> >>To: <[log in to unmask]> >>Subject: Cheng-Tsui Pricing > >------------------ >Has anyone had dealings with Cheng-Tsui? We have a new Chinese prof who >needs the tapes to accompany his text book ("Integrated Chinese" from >Cheng-Tsui). We think the prices are outrageous. For just the first >semester, the student cost for the four (4!) cassette tapes is $53. >Second semester is only three tapes for $43. And second year (two >semesters) is $83. In other words, over two years of Chinese a student >would be asked to pay nearly $170 just for the tapes. > >OK, so we go to the language lab model and buy a set to be copied for >students. They now want to charge a different language lab fee of $440 >for the same sets. > >This seems quite out of step with other publishers. We don't charge >student lab fees, so these costs hit us hard. I can imagine it would be >worse at smaller schools with correspondingly smaller budgets. And if we >were forced to do this with all of the languages we teach (nearly 50 any >given semester)... well I think you can see the problem. > >Unfortunately this prof didn't speak with us first to explore >alternatives, so we'll be forced to go along. (Also, unfortunately, he's >here only a year until the regular prof returns to use his own materials.) >But I just wanted to get reactions from others of you. > >Read Gilgen >University of Wisconsin _____________________________________________________________ Cindy Evans, Director Foreign Language Resource Center [log in to unmask] and Lecturer in French phone: 518-580-5205 Skidmore College fax: 518-580-5230 _____________________________________________________________