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these are the guys that run the textbook market. ill go with option 1.
by jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
these are the guys that run the textbook market. ill go with option 1.
- ynniv 17y agoI have to disagree: have you seen the money students drop on textbooks lately? The whole market has consolidated and now makes books worthless after only a year or two (hence small secondary market) by releasing new revisions with different exercises in them. Maybe publishing at large doesn't know their business, but the textbook companies are minting money.
- CamperBob 17y agoThe textbook publishers had better gather their rosebuds while they may, because that scam isn't going to work forever.
- ynniv 17y agoHah - kids don't buy textbooks because they want to. It has nothing to do with paper pulp, and the universities are hurting for cash lately.
- epochwolf 17y agoYeah, $0 for my latest comp sci class. Someone found a pirated pdf of the book and offered to hand it out to the class. The professor made no objection.
- alanthonyc 17y agoApplying Occam's razor here would support your conclusion.
- gjm11 17y agoDo you mean Hanlon's?
- sketerpot 17y agoHanlon's razor is a pretty straightforward application of Occam's razor to sociology, as far as I'm concerned.
- alanthonyc 17y agoHah. I think either one would work.
- gjm11 17y agoI have a variant on Hanlon's Razor that I find particularly appropriate when dealing with telephone companies, utility companies, government bureaucracies, etc.: Never attribute to benevolence what can be explained by incompetence. Conveniently, this principle also gives the same answer to the question of why McGraw said what he did.
- swombat 17y agoLooks like you were right!