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Did it say "Zig Zag" on the front?
My last year in college, I ony bought 1 book
Teachers basically read the books content
So them I decided to keep my $$$$$
Did it say "Zig Zag" on the front?
And then you try to sell the books back to ty L&M book store and their like YEAH WELL THIS WAS LAST SEMESTERS BOOK WE NO LONGER TAKE IT and They YOU at the drive-thru, okay? They YOU at the drive-thru! They know you're gonna be miles away before you find out you got ed! They know you're not gonna turn around and go back, they don't care. So who gets ed? Me. Okay, sure! I don't give a ! I'm not eating this tuna, okay?
I completely agree, for a subject a do.. the textbook about abnormal behaviour is $150... tha ?
One of the greatest scenes of all time imo
can't find any ebook bootlegs
Do you need the book for the entire semester? If not, go to the library and ask for the book via interlibrary loan. Or, you can always check at the reserve desk to see if the prof has put a copy on reserve (usually a 2 hour checkout period).can't find any ebook bootlegs
Getting Chinese friends is another option. I had a friend who would buy me CS books in China for something like $5 a piece, and often the binding was better than in the legit copies for sale in the school bookstore. Had another friend from Iran who would buy bootlegs there too. Got a $100 algorithms book for something like $7, although every once in a while there is a page printed right to left.
As a former student, I concur. As a current professor, McGraw-Hill has paid me hundreds to simply test out their on-line technology, bribed me with free food and gift cards to use their books, and even given me multiple free copies of the text in question that I could resell unopened for nice pocket change. I now understand... That said, I've never used a McGraw-Hill text, and until they bring back $50 textbooks, I'll simply let them pay me to consider their texts.
This is amazing; I was on Amazon looking for a copy of one of my favorite books of all time, Structure and Interpretation of Computer programs, and I saw two copies of the book that looked almost identical except the cover on sale for wildly different prices.
Book 1
http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Inte...3284221&sr=8-1
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition (Hardcover)
by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
Hardcover: 657 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 2 edition (August 1, 1996)
Language: English
$111.60
Book 2
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
Hardcover: 657 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press; 2 edition (July 25, 1996)
Language: English
$59.04
I was in shock. The exact same edition of the same book, both hardcovers, and one is twice as much. Then I read the critique from a Caltech professor whose class uses this book:
Sickening. Like the prof said, this book is completely free to read online; one of the authors, Hal Abelson, is the founder of the Free Software Foundation (Its most famous work is in funding the GNU project; the one that has given us all GNU/Linux for free both as in free beer and as in freedom). The other author, Sussman, is also a member of the FSF and publishes his texts online for free also. It's certainly not greed of the authors causing this .
Here's the full book online; if you have any interest in computer science, this is maybe the best book ever written on the subject.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
you McGraw-Hill.
Another way to save money is to buy the previous edition. My engineering textbooks always have the exact same material as the new edition, those gots just mix up the problems at the end of chapters in a different order. Just ask a friend or your professor if you can copy the correct problems and you save yourself a bunch of money.
Alot of students are stupid as though. Ive tried to re-sale a couple of those older edition textbooks and usually the student decides to spend $100+ more on the newer edition instead, simply because the problems are in the correct order. As long as theres dumbasses like them the publishers will continue to run this scam.
Last edited by FkLA; 08-21-2012 at 03:18 AM.
It was probably this one:
Last edited by Wild Cobra; 08-21-2012 at 02:56 AM.
I always bought text books online and saved roughly 10 - 20 % on the price. I would then sell the book back to the University Book store after the semester.
Bottom line, spend the extra buck and buy the new edition texts as they are refundable. You'll lose only 5 - 10% altogether.
seriously whoever bumped this, thank you for reminding me how glad i am i don't have to go back to school soon for the first time in my life. instead, i get to go to job interviews. big improvement tbh.
that. Id rather spend $40 on the previous edition instead of $200 for the 'new edition' that has the exact same material. Ill just keep the textbook if I have to, rather do that than buy a new one and re-sell it to the university bookstore for half the price they sell it for. You might even be able to find a student thats smart enough to buy it from you the following semester.
Last edited by FkLA; 08-21-2012 at 03:36 AM.
Why should a textbook cost 150.00 dollars when you can find a bible in your hotel room for free?
They are both just cardboard ink and paper.
I only rent books now. Majority of the time you can't even sell that back and if you do it's only for a fraction of the price you paid.
I was just talking with my worker monkeys about this yesterday. The latest wrinkle in the scam is selling software along with the book coupled with a good for one use registration code that gets you access to some online classroom. There's some additional content like reprinted articles, an online discussion board and it doubles as the place where all class assignments (usually multiple choice exams) are done and turned in. In other words they take a bunch of material that could probably be found free online by any student with a brain and package it with a set of online services that the campus tech support can provide (which the students fee money is already paying for anyway). There's a market out there for them though and a big one. Every time I've heard of these things being used in a class the teacher is either a grad student or a very young professor with barely concealed contempt for the fact that they are being asked to teach. Avoid having to even contemplate a curriculum and screw these inconvenient student things over? WIN-WIN!
one time i was trying to sell a book back and they said $20 it's not in demand right now. Then her partner cashier said they probably need it for the classes only in the second half of the semester. And they gave me $80 after ing with the computer a bit. Such a scam
Hey!Hi Jekka
The number one reason that I didn't pursue a PhD after my masters was that I didn't want to get stuck teaching for several years. Then I ended up teaching anyway (because of course I did), but I'm not even requiring a book, much less a book that comes with proprietary software. What a load of BS. You can't take out fulfilling your PhD-track obligations on students, especially when they already feel gypped that they're being taught by a freaking grad student, or new idiot prof that resents paying his dues. That's obnoxious.
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