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So buy the 5th edition. One of the perks of being able to self learn is that these sorts of revenue models don't impact you :-) Edit: I've used Gallian. Not su

• __jal 10y ago
  If it is like other edition changes, you can expect about four typo-fixes, a new sticker on the shrink wrap, a 7-10% price increase, and a single-use code for online tools that make the professor's life easier. Every third edition, a "new and expanded" final chapter and an intro change, and a 20% price bump. I used to date a textbook marketing manager. It was a joke internally, too.
  • jcranmer 10y ago
    You forgot the part where you rearrange the questions so that students have to get the latest edition to be able to get the correct question 2 on their assignment.
    • MaysonL 10y ago
      I used to read textbooks for Reading For the Blind and Dyslexic, and in a number of cases I found that the solutions in the back of the book were not for the same exercises in the front. Somebody had rearranged the exercises, but not the solutions.