Comments on Profile Post by spwath

Are any of your professors requiring the textbook they authored themselves (and their TAs actually wrote)? That's one of my favorite scams.

Immoral profiteering cash grab of the publishing company for the latest version of a book that changed exactly 17 words since the previous version, which you could buy for like 25% of the price of the new one if you were allowed to use the old version (which you’re not due to collusion with profs/school)?

It's a cash grab, plain and simple. Add to that to the fact that many are hideously dull and poorly written.

I have found luck with used copies, so not too bad, and doesn't seem there is any school/book maker collusion. But still, $80 for a used textbook...

You’re in a different situation than I was back in the day then. Many profs insisted on only the latest version, which was crap. Some books costed hundreds, which is nothing but a cash grab.

I hated the idea of professors profiting from their books and changing things around every year to make kids buy new books. Out of spite, I photocopied relevant sections of the books and returned them to the bookstore.

I mostly just find pdfs online, some Russian site dedicated to having all textbooks on them for free. But some classes I need a physical copy to use on tests.

TFW your cost on textbooks for one semester alone is more than a year's tuition in the 70s-80s...

in the entire time since i came back to school i think ive only bought 1 textbook? I always just find them online and use PDFs on my ipad.

Due to this I've done the same thing @purr1n did multiple times, as well as sourced text from....other means. I just refuse to pay that much for textbooks.

Way back then... a British pound was worth more like three American dollars, but publishers still managed one pound = one dollar conversion when selling those books in UK.