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.
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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.