are textbooks so damn expensive all of a sudden?

at state, I never spent more than $300 on textbooks per semester. This spring, I've gotta pay nearly $1000 for books for THREE classes. Retarded.

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1/6/2011 10:28:27 PM

sounds like grad school to me...

1/6/2011 10:29:43 PM

learn where to find them cheaper.

1/6/2011 10:29:47 PM

Psh I spent a min of $500-$600 every semester, consider it book karma?

1/6/2011 10:29:54 PM

^^^ it's actually a second BS. Grad school books weren't cheap when I needed them, but never quite this bad.

And this is the "find them cheaper" option. New or from the bookstore would be well over 1200.

waaaaaaa. somebody give me money. pretty please??

1/6/2011 10:44:27 PM

I happen to be in a position to loan you some money, and I will happily do so.

unfortunately, I also find you very attractive. so in order to secure this loan, you would have to do things with me in the bedroom that would traumatize you for years. YEARS!

I'm so sorry aea

1/6/2011 10:47:10 PM

ermmm... you know I am married, right?

1/6/2011 11:05:35 PM

No, I did not know that.

Unfortunately, that makes me even more attracted to you. Now, the loan is interest free....

1/6/2011 11:07:25 PM

Sorry EMCE

1/6/2011 11:08:33 PM

now I just feel dirty



On a serious note, sorry your books are so expensive. I hated that shit too. I do remember getting free books for some classes a few semesters though. As in, I was buddies with the professor for that class (who taught the class every semester). Every semester, the professor gets a free book anyway for teaching, so they just gave that ish to me. Might want to look into it.

1/6/2011 11:11:55 PM

I actually would love to have that kind of relationship with my professors, especially since I'd like to do some research with a few of them. But it's my first semester at (yet another) new school, and I'd hate to try and get a free loaner copy from one of them without ever having worked with them before.

I'm thinking if I bite the bullet and spend the money for this spring, and put in a lot of face time with the department, it'll pay off and hopefully I can just get books through the department the rest of my time here, like I did at CofC. Maybe they'll even hire me too

1/6/2011 11:20:54 PM

advanced education changes relatively quickly. It costs a shitton to keep updated because much of the information will be obsolete after 4 years.

also see inflation
also see competition

The money has to be worth the time, energy, resources, complaints/misinformation/typos/updates/revisions, etc... the authors put into it.

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1/6/2011 11:23:52 PM

oh, I see.

Yeah, I did at lot of research of these professor's labs back in the day.... and had them for a few classes.... and was a TA for some of their courses. They knew my ass.



aha, I actually still call them every year as the summer is approaching, and ask if they have any students that want to intern with me at Lockheed
I love interns. You don't have to pay them shit

1/6/2011 11:25:04 PM

^^ is that why the new editions put out have hardly any changes in them, except for the problems to be worked?

1/6/2011 11:39:32 PM

Quote :

"The money has to be worth the time, energy, resources, complaints/misinformation/typos/updates/revisions, etc... the authors put into it."

actually, I think it has more to do with the fact that the customer-base is very restricted

so they have to charge a shit-ton to make any sort of profit

1/7/2011 12:23:15 AM

You can get them for free with a public library card, you just have to point at it with your gun.

1/7/2011 12:28:53 AM