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[annathyst]

Textbook prices are EVIL.
$87.50 for a fricking PAPERBACK compsci book!
At least I already have the books for most of my classes...

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[byagghametta.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my history text last semester...same cost for a paperback as well...at least I'll get some of it back when tax time comes 'round. :)

[czircon.livejournal.com]

Some of my friends here had to pay $44.50 for a "book" that was quite literally nothing more than a bunch of Xeroxed pages from other books.

[piman.livejournal.com]

I had to do that. Some of the papers in it were by my professor, and he went on a long rant about how he wasn't seeing a cent from (130 of) us buying it, but he couldn't just give them to us for copyright reasons.

[billemon.livejournal.com]

If you think that's bad, you should pay the markup we do for importing books from the US, here in the UK ;o)

Seriously, though, books that are going to be useful as reference are worth the money, even the price does seem a little extortionate; I'm wishing I'd shelled out more for the hardcover editions of some of mine (like Stroustrup 3rd edition) because they're getting a little dog-eared (and I don't even look at that one much nowadays).

[krzy.livejournal.com]

This semester, my husband and I spent $530US on our books. I think we bought 8 books total.