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When I tried using a previous edition, the page numbers and most of the exercises didn't line up. "Thursday's test will be on pp 144-172 inclusive, and get to k
by bronson 5y ago
When I tried using a previous edition, the page numbers and most of the exercises didn't line up. "Thursday's test will be on pp 144-172 inclusive, and get to know exercise 5.17." It put me at a surprisingly big disadvantage.
Pretty sure the publishers anticipated this.
- rococode 5y agoThat's often the only thing that actually substantially changes between editions. Shuffle the exercise numbers and change the font and spacing and voila, brand new edition completely incompatible with older versions!
- bch 5y agoIf that’s true, can’t there be some consumer class-action applied?
- dragonwriter 5y agoClass actions, like any lawsuit, require a law to be broken.
- truth_ 5y agoIf the teachers are helpful, this would not be an issue. In most places I went to, teachers understood, and some peer always helped people with older textbooks. For problem set additions or extra chapters or pages, we used to photocopy those pages before high-res cameras became a norm in mobile phones.
- alisonkisk 5y agoWhat school was this? I would never send myself or a child to a school that exploited us like that.