[Jukka Juutinen]

Well, they are not cheap, though I think Classic´s pricing is worse due to their tendency to do multiple thin volumes instead of one thicker volume. I think it is pretty perverse that Classic´s sister company Midland does hardcover books from less than 200 pages to over 400 pages while Classic seems to stick to about 224 pages per book. If America´s Hundred Thousand had been a Classic book, it would probably have been released in 10 softcover volumes at £16.95 each.

However, the worst pricing is from Frank Cass (now part of Taylor&Francis): they have some small format hardcover editions with less than 300 pages priced at about $100!