FOR real, someone or some company execs needs to go to JAIL for textbook Ripping.

[wasserkool]

Good gawd, reading a few threads here about textbook prices drives me nuts! Someone must be in charge of artificially inflating the prices and making illegal profits!

There should website dedicated to downloading pIRATED BOOKS!!

 

[Gunslinger08]

They're not doing anything illegal. They are in business. This is how it works.

 

[brian_riendeau]

Or maybe the problem is that 50 companies all makes books with the same fundemental material in them, then they all need to jack the price way up on the books to make any money on them.

 

[Albis]

most of my books are from the same couple publishers so i bet it has to do with the fact that there are only a few big publishers doing textbooks

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
They're not doing anything illegal. They are in business. This is how it works.

Actually it should not work this way. The school is basically in bed with the textbook publishers and guess who writes the books?.....a lot of times YOUR professor. The system is a monopoly. You don't have a choice which books to buy and it is not like you can get by without them so you are forced to pay whatever you are charged. If these were normal books they would be in the bargain bin for a dollar due to low demand but because they have you by the short hairs they will charge $200 for one.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: wasserkool
Good gawd, reading a few threads here about textbook prices drives me nuts! Someone must be in charge of artificially inflating the prices and making illegal profits!

There should website dedicated to downloading pIRATED BOOKS!!

Bad idea.

But the file-sharing networks seem to enjoy this.

 

[Deeko]

Here is an idea.

People can stop being stupid and using their university bookstore. Buy the books online at a place like half.com for 1/10 the price.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

Originally posted by: Deeko
Here is an idea.

People can stop being stupid and using their university bookstore. Buy the books online at a place like half.com for 1/10 the price.

international edition ftw

 

[Wonderful Pork]

my fav is when the Prof/University change editions from semester to semester so you can't even sell the (usually) useless POS back!

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: Deeko
Here is an idea.

People can stop being stupid and using their university bookstore. Buy the books online at a place like half.com for 1/10 the price.

Yes, that is a good option and one we did not have many years ago when I was in college. The problem is from what I see through my stepdaugher who is in college now is that the classes keep jumping to different books, either completely different or newer editions of the same, so you cannot always find them at half.com.

 

[Amplifier]

The real joke is on the people spending 100k for 40k/yr jobs.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: Amplifier
The real joke is on the people spending 100k for 40k/yr jobs.

umm.....what exactly are you alluding to? College being a waste of money?

 

[Whisper]

Originally posted by: Amplifier
The real joke is on the people spending 100k for 40k/yr jobs.

It's not a joke if it's something you have a passion for doing.

And isn't there a legal case going on somewhere involving textbook price inflation; something dealing with how the prices have gone up like 130% in the last four or five years?

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: Amplifier
The real joke is on the people spending 100k for 40k/yr jobs.

umm.....what exactly are you alluding to? College being a waste of money?

The sad thing is that over time with the pressures of the global economy this could very well be the case. I'm not saying it is so now, but it very well could be in the future if costs keep rising yet wages are driven down by unemployment and globalization shipping the jobs to other countries. It is a very scary possibility. Americans just sit around thinking everything is ALWAYS going to be OK but that is not necessarily true. The "Greatest Generarion" arranged the wonderful life all Americans enjoy today but sadly no one today seems to think there is ever any maintenance needed? It will not go on forever the way things are going at the moment. Hard choices need to be made and made soon but I fear nothing will be done. I am glad I am old enough to not be around for the worst of what is to come if this country continues to act like osteriches with their heads in the sand.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

It might not be illegal, but its 100% unethical. Algebra books do not need new $150 dollar editions every two or three years.

 

[cerebusPu]

i spent $80 on a book that my professor wrote. we have to buy teh photocopied version at the bookstore. he has the pdf's man! i know it!