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Does anyone feel that it is wrong to buy used college textbooks? It seems like these items are almost like consumables, in that their value is reading them one time, and that it is unfair to the authors/publishers not to purchase a separate copy for oneself.
 
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Does anyone feel that it is wrong to buy used college textbooks? It seems like these items are almost like consumables, in that their value is reading them one time, and that it is unfair to the authors/publishers not to purchase a separate copy for oneself.
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Having had 7 sons go to college 👍 , and now my wife has returned :eek: , I feel the pinch of the costs of these books. BUY USED, keep them in good condition, and RESELL

That is if they don’t issue a new edition each year, or buy a different text from a publisher offering more incentives.

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By that line of reasoning, public libraries would be immoral.

What I don’t think is fair are the high prices that publishers charge once something becomes a textbook, because they know they have a large body of captive consumers. I know of one book that used to cost $20, but the price rose to $150 once it became commonly used as a textbook.
 
The cost of college texts is unbelievably high…Buy all the used one you can find!
 
Fortunately, at the university where I got my degree, we had a textbook library. The students check out the textbooks they needed at the beginning of the semester and returned them at the end of the semester.

At another university where the students have to purchase their textbooks, some of the professors revise their textbooks every three years. In this way, the students have to almost always purchase new textbooks. And the prices are very high.

The professors who don’t believe in this scam, hardly ever revise their textbooks, and also charge the lowest prices.

Please don’t feel sorry for the writers of textbooks. You are already paying enough money to attend their classes. Why should you pay an outrageous amount of money for information you have already paid for?
 
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Please don’t feel sorry for the writers of textbooks. You are already paying enough money to attend their classes. Why should you pay an outrageous amount of money for information you have already paid for?
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I remember attending many of those “expensive” classes… no prof, just a student aide. Guess the prof was off writing another version of his history book.http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon8.gif And the times “…they aren’t a-changin…”

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Reading my ENC 1101 Textbook - The Call to Write…3rd edition (2005 edition) it angers me to just read it! There is a whole page encouraging students to visit www.moveon.org and a lot of the writings so far have been so leftist without any balance that it’s sad.
 
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Reading my ENC 1101 Textbook - The Call to Write…3rd edition (2005 edition) it angers me to just read it! There is a whole page encouraging students to visit www.moveon.org and a lot of the writings so far have been so leftist without any balance that it’s sad.
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And some of the history books give more coverage to Marilyn Monroe than to George Washington.

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What I detest the most about the books is you pay up to $120.00 for a book and they give you 20or 30 dollars back. I think the college’s take advantage of all of us who don’t receive any funding for these books.😦
 
Do you also buy a separate newspaper for each member of the household? Do you let others read your magazines? :rolleyes:
 
Well, you know, things like chemistry and math don’t change that much. Calculus was invented in the 18th century.

It seems that an honest professor would buy a ‘wal-mart’ priced book and just fill in the additional information.

For math, physics, chemistry, statistics…there’s Schaum’s outline series which itself is updated periodically – all the basic information, example problems (solved) and test problems. These volumes used to run about $12 a couple years ago, and are probably still cheap versions.

Keep iin mind, last week Allan Greenspan said that there was virtually no inflation in this country. To natural gas, gasoline, health care, food, milk, autos, prescription and OTC meds, add textbooks which are spiraling out of reach.
 
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