I honestly dont see the purpose in having these regulated text books. You could could get the same material for 10-20$ at the book store but for the college/high-school textbook its 75-over 200$. Why not just assign cheaper books or just tell the students what they need to study? Is it really that hard?
You can find a lot of them as PDFs online for free, provided the class doesn't do that bullshit where they make you buy the special edition that changes every year so you can't rent, buy used or sell it back to the bookstore at the end of the semester. One class I had to buy a 2000-something page LOOSE LEAF (what the fuck?!) biology textbook that's now just taking up way too much space on my bookshelf
Cheaper books don't exist. Part of what makes them expensive is the amount of information in the book. Now some books are a rip off and schools may promote a specific author for shady reasons, but a science book is going to be more expensive than a lit book. And of course some books have constant new editions that make it difficult to buy the cheaper ones, but not all schools do this. I know they tried to regulate it at a school near me but politics are politics and it didnt quite happen.
As for parents paying for school, it's a nice idea but not feasible. My sister in law is choosing a retirement fund over school for her kids because they can take out loans for that. There are no loans for retirement.
Loans are not a bad way to go, twenty years ago. They are out of control now. But still not impossible if you look around.
First off, college text books are a very small market. Nothing dictates that the same text book must be used for the same class in different schools. So all the expense of writing and printing these books must be born by only several thousand books sold, instead of several hundred thousand sales for a 'best seller' novel, for instance.
I thought used text books were available at campus book stores; is that no longer true? There are specialty book selling sites like alibris that have all kinds of books including text books. A little preplanning and all your text books could be in your hands for the first day of class.
Should parents pay for kids college?
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Yea college is expensive as fuck. And don't get me started on those dumb ass books.
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You can find a lot of them as PDFs online for free, provided the class doesn't do that bullshit where they make you buy the special edition that changes every year so you can't rent, buy used or sell it back to the bookstore at the end of the semester. One class I had to buy a 2000-something page LOOSE LEAF (what the fuck?!) biology textbook that's now just taking up way too much space on my bookshelf
Cheaper books don't exist. Part of what makes them expensive is the amount of information in the book. Now some books are a rip off and schools may promote a specific author for shady reasons, but a science book is going to be more expensive than a lit book. And of course some books have constant new editions that make it difficult to buy the cheaper ones, but not all schools do this. I know they tried to regulate it at a school near me but politics are politics and it didnt quite happen.
As for parents paying for school, it's a nice idea but not feasible. My sister in law is choosing a retirement fund over school for her kids because they can take out loans for that. There are no loans for retirement.
Loans are not a bad way to go, twenty years ago. They are out of control now. But still not impossible if you look around.
First off, college text books are a very small market. Nothing dictates that the same text book must be used for the same class in different schools. So all the expense of writing and printing these books must be born by only several thousand books sold, instead of several hundred thousand sales for a 'best seller' novel, for instance.
I thought used text books were available at campus book stores; is that no longer true? There are specialty book selling sites like alibris that have all kinds of books including text books. A little preplanning and all your text books could be in your hands for the first day of class.