First of, its $58, but thats the price of the real book too. You don't expect the publisher to NOT price gouge, do you? Its how they make their money. If students didn't buy used books, then they could charge less. Not that I'm advocating students not to sell back books. In fact, this is how many college bookstores survive.
On that note, eBooks should be lower in price since sellbacks are not possible. Oh well, one day the publishing companies will get it. In the meantime, lets go cut down a couple more forests!
Well, see, publishing companies are smarter than us. While we think we're being smart by selling our books after we're done with them, they simple create another edition with NOTHING different except different grahpics, and the fact that the problems are completely changed with number and order - thus meaning you must get it.
Add to this the completely unexplainable behavior of colleges who constantly switch to the newer editions even though there's nothing (well, as nothing wrong as you can get with textbooks...) wrong with the existing one.
There must be some type of "extra" benefits from the publishing company for the guy in charge of switching to newer editions. Perhaps they share the same bed?
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
First of, its $58, but thats the price of the real book too. You don't expect the publisher to NOT price gouge, do you? Its how they make their money. If students didn't buy used books, then they could charge less. Not that I'm advocating students not to sell back books. In fact, this is how many college bookstores survive.
On that note, eBooks should be lower in price since sellbacks are not possible. Oh well, one day the publishing companies will get it. In the meantime, lets go cut down a couple more forests!
Well, see, publishing companies are smarter than us. While we think we're being smart by selling our books after we're done with them, they simple create another edition with NOTHING different except different grahpics, and the fact that the problems are completely changed with number and order - thus meaning you must get it.
Add to this the completely unexplainable behavior of colleges who constantly switch to the newer editions even though there's nothing (well, as nothing wrong as you can get with textbooks...) wrong with the existing one.
There must be some type of "extra" benefits from the publishing company for the guy in charge of switching to newer editions. Perhaps they share the same bed?