English Translation

34 - 30 - costs so high that the price of the textbook would then not be approved by the ministry. If we now calculate the costs for the individual piece, the following calculation is made: 38 35o.-(total costs) : 2ooo number of sales outlets) = K 19.17 + 25-% discount for booksellers = " 6.40 selling price Kc 25.57 or rounded Kc 25,6o; this would therefore be based on the above calculation of the selling price of the middle school book. However, according to the prices approved by the Ministry of Education and People's Culture, this book price is too high. As we have seen above, the Ministry grants a maximum sheet price of Kc 1,5o for school books. This results in 12 sheets: 1.70 x 12 = Kc 20.40 for cover "3.60 a maximum selling price of 24.-- Kc. Therefore, the publisher can only expect a profit from the following editions or from other textbooks. The edition of 2ooo pieces adopted here corresponds approximately to the average edition of a German textbook, which is likely to be between 2 and 3oo copies. It is also clear that in a new textbook, the publisher cannot use too high numbers of copies if he does not know how to introduce this book. Furthermore, the frequent change of curricula, but