I was in Barnes & Noble the other day buying some books and I realized I didn't have a copy of K&R around anymore. I picked up the book along with a few others and went up to the check out. I could not believe it when they rang the book up for 60 fucking dollars. Just for fun I compared this book to the Programming Python book located nearby on the shelf, which is more than 1100 pages-- a massive reference book produced fairly recently (more recently than K&R C anyway). By comparison, this book was barely a scrap of Programming Python, and yet they want 60$ for it. Sucks for Barnes and Noble, they could have sold me that book for 30 dollars which is probably more than its worth in the grander scheme of things anyway, but instead they tried to rape me for buying an old classic book to brush up on my C. Shameful. Can you imagine if they wanted like 60$ for Hamlet or something? That's what it felt like.