mortaneous t1_it0ytbf wrote on October 20, 2022 at 3:22 AM

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

An anecdote fornyour anecdote, when I was in college around 20 years ago, I was spending 150-200 per Book, aside from some texts for literature and history courses, so your kid either has good teachers that know how to choose low cost course materials or they're taking courses that just don't have the typical textbooks.

I will say that I occasionally had a professor who knew we weren't going to use most of a book and just provided us photocopied excerpts from it instead of having us all buy a copy for 2 chapters and an appendix.

open_door_policy t1_it1644a wrote on October 20, 2022 at 4:31 AM

20 years ago, most of my courses after year two of university, the professors insisted that the newest edition of the book was required, as well as the three supplemental books that were necessary, even though they would never be directly referenced during the class.

I'm sure it was purely coincidental that they were the authors of the books. We were free to take up any complaints with the department head (who was the instructor), or the ethics committee (which included the instructor.)

While I'd hope that kind of shit has gotten better, I'd be shocked if it has.