Holy !@#! Textbooks Are Expensive

textbook are expensive, my first semester cost me over 600 dollar, and the buyback from the bookstore is a complete rip off.

 

lol i just realized a mod must have edited the title of this thread... im pretty sure when i submitted it, it said 'holy shit textbooks are expensive' not !@#!

 

either that or its done automatically.

 

I'm going to try to get used texts this semester. I spent over $500 on books last semester, and got a $150 textbook grant... wow thanks... that totally covers the cost... -_-
Anyways, it's a good thing I really only have to buy 2 texts for new courses. I'm hoping they didn't come out with a new edition.

 

I know what you mean! I wish I went out on boxing day and bought books for next semester! :(
Textbooks in general are overrated! Roar!

 

i found a second hand online bookstore run by a society at uni where u can buy books.. hoping to find the books i need on there now
they sell a lot cheaper and some are close to brand new and the right textbooks cos they go to same uni

 

yah.. fuck man

new editions are the worse too

buy second hand or from forums/textbook exchange sites

international editions (if you can use them) are also much cheaper

 

investment into your future

 

always get 2nd hand unless stated otherwises ie. they say its new edition

 

haven't textbooks always been expensive? But I guess theres more comeptition for higher education at the moment, so publishers take this chance to make them a bit pricier, because they know students will definitely be looking for them.

Still - FINANCIAL CRISES RIGHT? But you should look for people that have finished school taht are selling textbooks at chaeper prices.

 

You could always buy the used books from the seniors.
once you have them you should just keep them they could be useful to when you get job.

 

Totally agree. Textbooks are crazy expensive these days and you can never keep up with the editions. I get really pissed when the semesters over and I try to sell the book only too find theres a newer edition out, and my book isn't even worth a quarter of what I paid!!!

 

Yeah, textbooks are really expensive. I try to buy a used version if I can find one or else I'd buy a new one. But I usually buy new textbooks if they are ones I am thinking of keeping.

Another thing that makes me really mad is when a textbook that is just PAPERBACK is going for over $120...

 

i even can't buy my textbooks in poland
if i want it, i need to a) ask my friends in taiwan to buy it for me or b) order it online.
damn.

 

Textbooks have long been used as a way for teachers and publishers to rip off each and every student while they're in school. When you see a textbook originally first published in 1990, and you then seen it's in its 9th edition, you have to seriously ask yourself if so many things have changed in the field that required so many updates? Or, how scholarly could the first edition have been if it was in need of so many revisions?

Hint, the greater the number of editions in the least number of years since first publication usually points to one thing only, that textbook is being used as a money mill for both teacher and publisher. Make a lot of noise about it; letters to the school ombudsman, letter to the education department of your state, letters to newspapers, and the better business organizations of your region. The more that people speak up, the greater pressure that publishers will avoid these rip offs, especially in today's tight economy.

 

Theater and film book for $107

Yes.... A book about film analysis for 107 bucks. Paperback filled with 80% bs.

 

yea but u can get some for cheap at half.com

 

yea that is so true i wasted like 1200 usd just this year alone on new texts because no one else had the texts.T.T