I'm entirely sympathetic. If you look through reviews of recent scholarly 
books in the Mark Twain Forum you'll see that the hardback editions are 
expensive. Unlike mass market books, scholarly books are published in small 
editions; consequently the unit prices are much higher. Also, scholarly 
books seldom get picked up for movie rights. The scholars who contribute to 
these books are paid "modest" one-time fees for their writing, which, if 
divided by the hours consumed in researching and writing, would fall well 
below the minimum wage. Sometimes you can buy a paperback or ebook version 
for much less than the hardback price. This is the brutal law of economics 
at work, and I'm afraid I don't have a solution.

Kevin
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-----Original Message----- 
From: ANTON & SUSAN VERHULST
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 2:30 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Use of the N-word

>
>     On January 4, 2017 at 3:06 PM Kevin Mac Donnell 
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>     How about a shameless promotion of a book to which I contributed a 
> chapter
>     that discusses this topic? The book is a collection of essays by 
> various
>     folks, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen, called CRITICAL INSIGHTS: 
> ADVENTURES OF
>     HUCKLEBERRY FINN. It's due out any second from Salem Press.
>


At US$105.00, I'm afraid that I'll have to pass on this - 
http://tinyurl.com/gt9e6tx. sigh.


Tony