30 Times US Students Were Shocked By Textbook Prices And Shamed Them Online

That's really crappy organization on the teacher/uni's part.

and that dear folks is why you sell your books to the next student directly. Your uni bookstore WILL screw you over as much as they can.

It's so sad... in Africa, we copy these books. Can't be paying so much for a book that has been making profit for 20 years, just 2 page revisions. The whole class once bought one book and made 50 copies

F*ckin' thieves is what they are. It's paper and printed words ffs

Surprised, not at all. - I read that in Yoda's voice

See, an anatomy book is something you’d think a student would keep, especially if it’s going to be useful in their career. So you’d think they’d make it more substantial—-or at least sell it with a good, sturdy binder included!

Had that happen for a chemistry class. $250 book. We only used it for the periodic table on the inside front cover. Prof decided not to use it again so the bookstore refused to take them back at the end of the semester since they had no re-sale value.

I think it's the system it's wrong. But that's how they keep the poor, poor.

It's just a racket that really should be stopped. Disgraceful

And can’t sell back, or even use it once the semester’s over. Yeah, I hated the access code “workbooks”.

Before my financial aid money came in, I went on,I even and got the ballpark price for my textbooks. Once I had my money, I budgeted for everything, with a little cushion in case of price increases. Luckily, my school paid out financial aid the week before classes started, instead of up to two weeks after like some schools do.

I’m angry for you.

Exactly this.

It IS a massive money-making scam. However, in most industries, you can kiss your chances of promotion goodbye if you don’t have a college degree—-even if you can do the job better in your sleep than the frat rat who got it instead of you can do it wide awake and with help. They just don’t “grandfather” experienced but uncredentialed employees into management positions anymore.

Weow

I went to college in 1980 and the rule of thumb was that you should expect to spend $100 on all your textbooks for the semester.

Smart, as long as you made sure the pdf is the version the instructor is using.

What's a book with a code?

Well, the good news is you will be using all those items, except for the muslin, in the future.

Then don’t. Scan the sample copy they sent you, plus any other materials your students will need to read, and upload them to MyClasses, Blackboard, or whatever online learning management site your school uses. It’s not an unheard of practice for “additional” reading materials an instructor prefers to use but which may be out of date.

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Supply and demand. Get ‘em while they’re hot folks.

That's awful.

When did Northern Territory break away from Australia?

No syllabus?

Edition: 12th smh

Seems for 14 textbooks you got a deal.

The last 5 years of my English lit teaching, I went entirely to public domain books on Kindle. Cost of books for a basic Intro course went from $85 to $12. Cost for my English grad students went from $600 to $45. Got heat from bookstore & admin. Told them to mind their own business. I was tenured. Now retired Emeritus.

Except when they pull c**p like 'answer the questions on page 45' and the electronic version doesn't match up.

But.. college itself won't cost very much

That’s still more expensive than the suggested $1200 budgeting for textbooks.

If the "woke" professors can figure out a way to screw you over, you might as well assume the position.

You done good and will go far in life.

Be sure to forward them a copy of your receipt so they can match the charge in future. That way they’ll know you’re not wasting money earmarked for school on non-school stuff.

That is insane.

No, just gorgeous beautiful trees.