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That is a good idea considering one of my books this year was a 120 dollar network book. I been avoiding buying from the bookstore at Ivy Tech and just order them from ebay, which I got that network book for only 30 dollars…in great shape. 
Only 1? Jesus fucking christ man. You’re lucky.
It’s a conspiracy, I tell you.
It’s okay to say that word here if I’m talking about something else, right?
Woohoo! My books won’t cost me as much as another fucking course! Maybe.
Yay trillian, your new avatar is so fitting for this thread too. =3
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Actually I had three books to buy (I only took two classes this semester), but they were pretty cheap as well. The network book was the most expensive through.
0 books, just a laptop.
I don’t know wether that’s cheaper in the long run or not.
That’s it; textbook publishers must be destroyed. I’m sick of having to pay $150 for a math textbook that is the exact same as the previous edition, only with a new cover and a slightly changed variable in one example. I’m sick of paying $200 for ten english books that I could check out of a library except for those pointless critiques in the back. I’m sick of paying $1000 a semester for all the textbooks, only to sell them all back for five bucks.
Wait, I have financial aid. Nevermind.
It doesn’t matter if you had 3 books to buy if the other 2 were cheap. The joy of science is that it costs 100 minimum per book, usually up to 200.
Pshaw, don’t complain unless you live in Norway. We have to spend $300-400 every six months.
Um, we have to spend at least that much every six months too. I think the least I’ve had to spend on books was one semester when I wound up paying around $500, and that was after not buying a book too because I knew we wouldn’t use it in the class.
I remember seeing a poster with a pie chart showing the break up of costs for a text book. Profit for the publisher and bookstore combined was supposedly only 25%. I don’t buy that. Not when they pay me $20 for a used book that cost me $120 that they’re going to resell for at least $60.
But are you punished if you’ve work besides school?
Now, I don’t know, but I do feel there must be a good explanation for this. My feeling is that it has to do with economics. Simply put, there is not a huge market for any particular textbook that they would decide to publish, and they could make a lot more money by publishing other sorts of books. They need to increase the price to offset those opportunity costs. I wouldn’t be surprised if that 25% figure was correct for new textbooks. I’ve heard the employees at my college bookstore complain often about how they were barely making any money off textbooks.
Interestingly enough, I didn’t have enough money to pay for one of my textbooks this semester. I’ve got a B average, and still haven’t bought one.
I’ll say, especially seeing how low textbook resale values are.
I get my books like you guys get your music in the internet 
Studies in Scandinavia are pretty damn crazy anyway. A friend of mine studied in Denmark, and what he told me money- wise was just cruel.
Depends on your program and how long you want to stay in school. And Taran, part of the costs, not all of it, but part of it is determined by the individual bookstores. 1 thing I hated about UCI in comparison to other UCs was that it had the most expensive of all bookstores.
Does a public education in norway cost 40000 dollars? Does a private education cost over 150,000? I don’t think so. If my education was paid for like it was in Europe, I’d gladly throw down a few hundred for books. Having had to do so after paying almost 40 grand a year…that just didn’t seem right.
200 for physics, 150 for calculus, 150 for networking, 150 for programming, and 100 for comp.tech basics. That’s just my first damn sem. Apparently, the third year of my program costs just under a grand pre-taxes.