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Granted it's a rental, but at least a hardbound book could be resold. The rent-seekers at Pearson cut their supply chain to almost nothing and still make a hand
by 4ensic 7y ago
Granted it's a rental, but at least a hardbound book could be resold. The rent-seekers at Pearson cut their supply chain to almost nothing and still make a handsome profit from their captive audience.
- situational87 7y agoNot sure that's better, when I was a college student living in poverty I was expected to buy $100-$300 books and at the end of the semester I would sell them back for $5-$20. Used pricing was never different than new, and the "17th edition" scam meant you often couldn't sell books back at all. I just started stealing textbooks shamelessly, and have zero regrets about it because I would not have finished college without those small crimes.
- todd8 7y agoDid that mean that other people didn’t get to finish? Or did it mean that they simply had no choice to pay for the book you stole and then again for one of their own? Is this that different from picking a victim and demanding that he or she hand over the money you lack for a textbook?
- NahJustDeadpool 7y agoIt is probably more along the lines of downloading/pirating a pdf version, or scanning and printing an entire textbook.