@$#! TEXTBOOK PRICES!

I hate upper-division classes. Even buying used whenever I could, I still just spent $185.

FOR TWO COURSES!!! :banghead:

$257 for used books for 2 upper-level courses. I feel your pain. x(

Oktoberain and i are looking at spending between $6-700 each for our fall classes (5 classes each)
And when we sell them back, we'll be lucky to get even 1/3 of that back. :mad:

:(

that is double what I spent last semester, but she has more classes this semester, yikes. Bad thing is they don't get squat if they return them to the bookstore

And no these books are almost impossible to buy online. :grr:

that I could only sell for $1 after.

Soon these price gouging mother fuckers will be in the same boat as the RIAA and anybody with an E-Book reader, PDA, or PSP can get these text books for free (many already are available).

Let's see how fast these outrageous prices drop then.

And please don't anybody come crying to me about piracy. I will NEVER shed a tear over text book gougers losing a dime to piracy. Ever.


ETA: Historically text books have been a huge percentage of the overall cost of education. This made sense if you were studying law in 13th century Florence when all books had to be laboriously hand copied and illuminated but since then there was a little invention called the printing press...

self delete.

its a fucking scam, and I'm not speaking figuratively. But they have us by the balls :shrug:

grrrrr. Just another was to 'rob' us. It is all too easy to spend $200 a semester and that is at the community college level. One of my son's algebra books was $90 used.

One course I registered for: Two required books, one costing $155.15 and no used ones available, and one costing $144.55 with $108.45 being available used apparently. The lecturer who's teaching the course wrote the books too.

I had a car wreck... the spare money I had for books is now going towards an insurance copay. I'm refusing to get any more student loans so this course is postponed this semester because I can't afford $300 worth of textbooks right now. Maybe some more used books will come on the market for the spring semester and I can afford them then. At least I'll get the tuition I paid back.

Mark.

and buy the prior edition. Many times the only difference is the cover and page numbers.

But what I had here was 6-8 books per class.

But what I had here was 6-8 books per class.