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You need to also require the the work is offered in previous versions, with monotonically decreasing real price (and maybe a meaningful discount on prior versio
by avidiax 3y ago
You need to also require the the work is offered in previous versions, with monotonically decreasing real price (and maybe a meaningful discount on prior versions).
Goodbye Calculus 47th Edition. Students can now buy Calculus 40th edition both used and new at a reasonable price in perpetuity. The publisher can charge more for Calculus 50th edition when there's actually new calculus or better teaching methods.
- account42 3y agoDon't US textbooks already scramble exercises so you can't just buy (use copies of) older textbook versions - effectively making making old versions obsolete without having to do any real work improving the content. Making students buy their own copies of required textbooks always seemed insane to me. Glad that that's not how things work here and any required excercises (already uncommon) were just provided by the professors/assitants as part of the course.