and also with Scot.

My music theory prof. just wrote the second edition of his textbook (I bought to use as a text in my class), and he's working the system. He priced his book just below the other standard texts, but it's still WAYYYY too much (IMHO - esp. for Music Theory I).

 

when i was in college 4 years ago, i remember the first 2 years i would have to spend a ton on books that i would hardly ever use because most of our assignments were online and done by case studies. so the last 2 years i didn't buy any textbook and if i ever needed it for an assignment or to study i would borrow a friends for an hour and make the copies i needed. screw paying for books!

 

ASU (Appalachain State University) lets you "rent" textbooks, you pay a fee in your tuition, rent the appropriate texts from the library/class, return at the end of semester and voila.

Campus-wide program.

I wish my uni had that

 

all of us in computer science had to use the newsgroups for our classes (announcements, discussion, schedule notices, etc), so we all used the side ones as well. we'd all pretty much do the same thing, figure out a fair balance between the used/new price and what'd you get if you sold it back to the book store, then price it somewhere in between. worked pretty well.

as far as new books went...only if i had to. my first semester i spent almost $600 on books. never again. i didn't even use half of my books!

 

i forgot about the a-hole teachers who write their own books....

"those who can't....teach"
"those who can't teach...... write books".....

 

That's why Appalachian is HOT HOT HOT!!!!

Check out this great video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVENWl8uBeg


I just bought my fiancee's textbooks on half.com for about 60% of what the bookstore is selling them for. Even at that big of a discount it's still about the same price that my textbooks were at the bookstore seven years ago when I was in school. It's crazy how expensive the books have gotten. We're using the campus bookstore as an absolute last resort.

 

Textbooks are for suckers (but then again so is going to class).

i miss school a lot, not the class and exam parts tho

go to the library and just read the one on reserve if u have to. or xerox the parts u need.

 

Our library does not have ANY books that are used as textbooks at the school

 

I took pride in that I only spent mabye $100 a semester on books. I'd go to the first few classes, and then made my decision on whether the book was necessary.

It usually wasnt't. And neither was going to class for that matter!

 

The only time I bought books at the bookstore was when I was procrastinated so long that I needed the book withing the next day.