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The problem with textbooks is the price, and the scam publishers use to get you to buy a new edition every six months, making previous versions useless. I wish
by lhnn 16y ago
The problem with textbooks is the price, and the scam publishers use to get you to buy a new edition every six months, making previous versions useless.
I wish some large schools would make publishers sign 'support contracts' enforcing that Edition X of a book would be available for at least 3 years, or similar.
Alternatively, professors could just stop mandating new versions of books every semester. I bet my calculus book from 5 years ago is still relevant. Heck, I bet my dad's calculus book is relevant.
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I miss college.
- yequalsx 16y agoPublishers stop printing old books and bookstores then have a hard time of finding enough books to shelve. We're sort of forced to get the new edition. However, there's a growing movement toward open source textbooks for static knowledge.
- joezydeco 16y agoWhen did they start putting out textbooks as unbound stacks of 3-hole punched sheets? My wife is taking a language class and this loose stack of paper is her "textbook". So to add to the insult of having to buy a binder to hold the damned thing, how do you sell this thing back? How do you know all the pages are there?