Book-lovers: What is CLV and why is it cheaper?

[Gfactor]

@xash

CLV stands for Customer Lifetime Value, or so it seems from this site which offers a CLV calculation software and a little explanation on what it means. Not that I understood why that should make the CLV version any cheaper…:

Purdue University Center for Food and Agricultural Business

Not that I understood why that should make the CLV version of a book any cheaper, or what relevance it has to the pricing of a book.

Yeah. It seems that is a different CLV.

[xash]

On second thoughts, I’m not quite sure what it stands for or why it’s in the title of books that are priced low.

Also, I messed up with cut/pasting, that’s why the repeated sentence. And I keep forgetting to click off the sig. Still not used to this new interface.

[Tapioca_Dextrin]

It might be “Concordant Literary Version”

This seems to a popular term for biblical books, where it means a literal translation from the original text with no attempt at interpretation. Most of the books you listed seem to be written by foreigners, so perhaps that’s it. I’ll be happy to be proved wrong, though

[toadspittle]

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:smack:
All I can say is, I’m dying to see a laserdisc of some physics textbook from the 1950s.

[Jurph]

So I guess all I have to do to work at Amazon customer service is be able to use Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” option? I really appreciate all the digging everyone’s doing, especially toadspittle, who gets my “cooler than the other side of the pillow” award for the month. I think I’ll send toadspittle a FREE Steak Dinner. And I’ll send Amazon’s Customer Service Drones a FREE Steak Dinner (TMI).

[toadspittle]

Crap. I didn’t intend to paste those two links to Amazon Customer Service up there. Any way a mod can remove them?

Speaking of which … where the heck are the mods? In this new format, I can’t find a listing of who’s in charge of each forum, nor the old link to “report this message to a moderator”…

[Tapioca_Dextrin]

@toadspittle

Speaking of which … where the heck are the mods? In this new format, I can’t find a listing of who’s in charge of each forum, nor the old link to “report this message to a moderator”…

The “report this post” is the ! on the right hand side. The list of mods is at the bottom of the forum homepage.

[dantheman]

However, you can’t report your own posts.

[Gfactor]

@toadspittle

All I can say is, I’m dying to see a laserdisc of some physics textbook from the 1950s.

Amen. I have not yet heard back from the publishers that I e-mailed. Courage.