MitsyEyedMourning t1_iszpy2f wrote on October 19, 2022 at 9:44 PM

Reply to comment by jcpainpdx in TIL the price of textbooks increases by an average of 12% with each new edition by ExperienceKCC

> unless they’ve authored the books.

Of course, because you are totally getting ass blasted and robbed ... unless it is their book.

fizzlefist t1_it2qymj wrote on October 20, 2022 at 2:48 PM

Unless it's one of the really good professors that makes their own material that gets spiral-bound and sold for $20 or less.

Mysticpoisen t1_it48xrb wrote on October 20, 2022 at 8:36 PM

I remember professors required lab manuals that they had written and spiral-bound exclusively available in the school library. $95 each, for the same list of a dozen exercises that were in it the last 10 years. Like, when the book costs $0.95 to make, and hasn't been updated in a decade, you can't upcharge 10000%, that's ridiculous.