[Sca-librarians] OT- Textbook need

[Avice of Greylyng]

No no, this is a normal price for a textbook in my experience. Especially 
in grad school. Although in under-grad I spent more. English and history 
softside text books are about $75-80 and novels for the class about $12. My 
science text books were usually about $120 new $100 ish used (Bio, chem, 
physics). I usually budgeted about $400 for textbooks when I was an 
under-grad taking 4 classes and I bought used where ever possible. My first 
term in grad school I paid I think about $300 which included a piece of $92 
software that we found out three weeks into the course we could have 
borrowed free from the library to install but by then the bookstore would 
not accept open packages of software, and we'd need the software to 
complete some homework (which was later never graded). The textbook buy 
back program never really helped either, I best I ever got for a returned 
text book was $37 on a book that cost me $120. the used copies cost about 
$80 but since it was the major text for that subject there we only a few 
used copies to be had because all the people majoring in it kept theirs.

I just paid $70 for one of my texts for another class this term but I just 
don't have another $110 to shell out.

</rant>

-Robin


At 12:42 AM 1/6/2005, you wrote:
>On Jan 5, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Avice of Greylyng wrote:
>>I'm in a bit of a financial crush right now and I can't afford this $96 
>>textbook for my Information Resources class. Does anyone have a copy 
>>lying around they could lend me for term.
>$96 for one textbook???
>
>Wow. I know that it's been over 20 years since I was in college, but are 
>textbooks really that expensive these days or is that an unusually high 
>price today?
>
>Stefan
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