I hate it so much when teachers assign you textbooks and you never use them... then randomly in the middle of the year on a completely random day they expect you to have them in class because "it was on the list".

by Anonymous 11 years ago

-_- I hate that so much you have no idea. I usually wait until the first day to see if we'll be using a book. I once had a professor that told us the first day of class "Technically I'm not supposed to tell you this, but I'm not going to use this book so don't bother buying it" Teachers should really do that. I don't have $100+ that i can just throw around.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That teacher... sounds awesome. Same here, I'm not wealthy, I've got bills to pay and food to put on the table. When it's optional, there's no doubt going to be maybe five kids in the class who buy it. During the one or two times we use it during the year, we can share, or a bunch of people can meet up in the library to do the assignment then explain it to the rest of the class who couldn't make it. Better than making 20+ kids waste 100 dollars that could've gone to a better cause.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I've decided that I'm going to sell my old books. Someone is going to need one, and I'm going to be there to sell it to them. It's great because they can save some money, and I can make some.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

**freeze frame high five** You sir, are awesome.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

My math class made us buy the book, and it came with a cd that could only be used once and we had to use it to do our homework. And of course you couldn't sell the book back after you opened the cd. The cd showed you how to do all problems, so there was no reason for a book to come with it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I got around that single-use limit by right-clicking on the CD, then opening its contents on Windows Explorer. That was an old CD, though. Newer ones would probably have some security measures to prevent that kind of thing. It's still worth a shot.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Maybe that's what the government says when it buys your high school textbooks...you know, before you had to buy the things you used

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You guys should check out bookfinder.com to get your textbooks cuz I payed about half of that for my books

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Hopefully some of that money went towards an English textbook, because your grammar shows that you could put it to good use!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Lucky you... My books cost $600+.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Compared to the tuition, that's peanuts. But yes, it is.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It is even more ridiculous to pay that for a brand named bag.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm not really complaining, my books cost like $550, but I got a great scholarship that pays my tuition //and// my room/board!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

This is why you should always look for your books on Ebay and Amazon.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Never buy from the school bookstore! You can save loads of money buying from half.com or amazon. And as soon as the semester is up you list that shit on Amazon to get as much possible money back as you can for them. Don't rent, that's just a waste. You'll end up paying way less if you buy it and re-sell on Amazon. I'm in my first semester of my Sophomore year, just my expeirence from college :)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Considering that those textbooks will be a significant aid in the process of obtaining a high-paying job, $453 seems reasonable.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Why textbooks are so expensive: inelastic demand (student who want to pass their courses have to buy the books); an oligopolistic supply market in which only a handful of publishers (including Thomson, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, and Houghton-Mifflin) dominate, high production costs that create barriers to entry by possible competitors with the Big Four; the fact that college bookstores, which typically charge some of the highest retail prices, tend to be profit centers for their universities; the fact that professors typically receive free comp copies of the books they assign their classes and thus often don't know how much the books cost; and the further fact that the professors who author textbooks have a financial stake via royalties in assigning the books to their captive classes.

by Anonymous 11 years ago