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In reply to the discussion: Have textbooks always been such a ripoff? [View all]Confusious
(8,317 posts)31. I'm still the winner, or loser as you may see it it
$250 for a math book: discrete mathematics and it's applications, Rosen, 7th edition, hard cover.
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Public admin 110 book $135.00 Poli Sci 329 two books on $110.00 other $35.00.
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2013
#6
Yep...and to prove it..I bought a hard bound copy today of "Windows 8 Bible" about 600 pages...
BlueJazz
Jan 2013
#9
Yes, my books back in the 60's cost a fortune, especially some of the math and physics ones ...
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#10
I had an anthropology class that had 6 required textbooks which were $80-120 each.
baldguy
Jan 2013
#14
Just wait till you sell it back to the univestity...they'll give you $45 for it. TOPS. n/t
Earth_First
Jan 2013
#20
I think so--even back in the early days of affordable tuitions, I always thought books were dear.
MADem
Jan 2013
#39
absolutely. but if it makes you feel any better, the professors get ripped off too.
unblock
Jan 2013
#40
I worked in a campus bookshop 5 years ago and some law students and radiology
applegrove
Jan 2013
#42
Yup. They were by far the most expensive textbooks. And you needed a lot of them.
applegrove
Jan 2013
#47
Major rip-off. A couple of my professors have mentioned that their texts get updated periodically.
rhett o rick
Jan 2013
#43
Let me save you 65$. Put one foot in front of the other in a slow leisurely pace.
white_wolf
Jan 2013
#51
My statistics text cost $230 new (with accompanying disk and online module "license")
haele
Jan 2013
#55