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The ****ing price of textbooks
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Posted by: Bunmiadefisayo
Where is the Rants and Raves forum?
I have just come from My University Bookstore...normally i wouldnt go there but i really needed this textbook that this freaking professor foisted on us.
Anyway so there i am walking towards a staff, i ask where the econs textbooks are and she shows me. I walk over there only to find that this freaking book is $140!!!!!!!! Omg i walk away stunned and decide that, ok maybe i will wait and buy my math textbook first. I walk over to where the books are located only to find...the freaking book is $150!!!!!!!!
At thios point i am almost literally foaming at the mouth with anger. A sales person asks me if there is any problem but i wisely walk away, knowing that i will do something terrible if i even stop for one second.
For crying put loud, wtf is up with these publishers?? How the bloody freaking hell can they charge money for a book. I felt as if my eyes were being gouged out of their sockets and i actually felt like i was being sucked dry as i paid for those books. Good thing the sales person was in a bad mood and didnt attempt to smile at me or else...
 
Posted by: taco_fox
buy used
Posted by: Chaotic
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Originally Posted by Bunmiadefisayo
Where is the Rants and Raves forum?
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Still right under this one 
Buy everything used except underwear. That way you can live above you're means by living below others.
Posted by: laborat
Even more of an outrage is most of those text books are written by the very professor who makes students buy them so he can collect royalties. They are also probably printed (some but not always) by the university's presses.
$150 for a book is an outrage. They could sell that book for half that and still make a profit. But hey, they have a captive audience and no one seems to rally around book gouging like they do for gas and groceries during hurricaines or earthquakes or floods.
If it was the 60's, they would be marching on the store, handing out leaflets denouncing the practice, urging student to boycott. Petitions would be signed and given to every professor who demands you buy the books at those prices. Some would even copy the books and sell them at a discount for the price of paper and copying alone.
But this is the ought-oughts, and people expect to be screwed. If they aren't they are nervous. We get screwed by our grocer. our bookstore. our government. the list of screwers goes on and on. No wonder the rest of the world thinks we are all a**holes.
Posted by: 9:35
Buy your books on Amazon. College bookstores up the prices like you wouldn't believe.
Posted by: Ocean
last semester our campus started to boycott the barns and noble, and buy all books online. ended up ****ing over the poor students who didnt have a means to purchase online, cause they jacked up prices this semester.
but they are creating more of a market to shop online
Posted by: INeedHelp
it cost me 404 canadians this year on text books
Posted by: redwench
most of those $200 books are used for multiple semesters 
major textbook publishers, which are almost never university presses anymore, have to spend a lot of money to get out a textbook. the proofreading is ungodly, plus the peer review and the limited market and lifespan. just think about the proofreading that goes into a math or physics book.........
even a large campus only has 500-1000 students taking econ a year. and usually there are different textbooks for each professor. so publisher x sells maybe 300 new books a year per large school for 5 years, then has to update the book 
Posted by: Gunslinger
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Originally Posted by 9:35
Buy your books on Amazon. College bookstores up the prices like you wouldn't believe.
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Quoted for truth. I've never had a book for a course that wasn't available used on amazon.com.
Posted by: redwench
just make sure its the same edition. they do upgrade them frequently.
Posted by: marioze53
If you dont want to spend alot of money on textbooks, just take alot of English classes. I remember this last quarter, for my English class I only spent about $40 for 5 books! It was a nice transition from $150 calc and architecture text books.
Posted by: Gunslinger
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Originally Posted by marioze53
If you dont want to spend alot of money on textbooks, just take alot of English classes. I remember this last quarter, for my English class I only spent about $40 for 5 books! It was a nice transition from $150 calc and architecture text books.
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Ha. Right. Obviously you never had an English class that required you to buy the Norton Anthology of English Literature.
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