Speaking of textbooks

[zanejohnson]

I work for a large text book distrobution and sales company...not saying which...because well this is atot...you usually save about 30 percent buying the digital copy....but realistically your best bet is to buy the book new,and on the last say of the semester sell the book back to your college bookstore usually at that time theyll be buying back for there shelves and not wholesale and u can get around 50% of what u paid new

 

[Newbian]

I didn't pay for any of my books in High School, and I have bought a few textbooks on kindle for college and they are cheaper than the physical copy.

Except in high schools kids return the books after the class is over and they reuse them unless they are to beat up a lot and in that case the parents have to pay for them.

I don't see a expensive ipad lasting a few years much less one with how kids treat them and that's one good thing about the books as they can take the punishment.

Not to mention you can't play video games on a textbook while in class.

 

[Fayd]

New common core curriculum coming out. Many schools will be looking for new textbooks. A sales rep for one of the major publishers contacted me and offered to send us samples of the new textbook series.

High school geometry textbook: ONE THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED, and FORTY PAGES!!! HOLY SHIT! If I had to carry the geometry, algebra, algebra II, pre-algebra, and pre-calculus textbooks at the same time, I'd get a hernia!

To the taxpayers who ultimately pay for these books: I'm telling the publisher to pound sand. They've gotta be kidding. 1140 pages for a high school math textbook? And they're really excited about how good it is?!

my calculus textbook is around that long.

course, that's calculus 1-3 in 1 book...