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College Textbook Scams
Posted on 5/14/19 at 6:44 am
Posted on 5/14/19 at 6:44 am
Going back to college to get a masters degree. Now they have this scam going where you have to buy this online access of sorts to participate in the class. The online access is something like $250 + e-book or you can get the textbook for $205 and the online access separately for $199. This basically forces you to purchase the new book because you have to have the “access code” and further lines the pockets and inflated prices.
Also “textbooks” are no longer bound apparently. They are loose leaf papers punched with a three hole binder. Wtf is this shite?
Also “textbooks” are no longer bound apparently. They are loose leaf papers punched with a three hole binder. Wtf is this shite?
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Posted on 5/14/19 at 6:46 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
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The online access is something like $250 + e-book or you can get the textbook for $205 and the online access separately for $199. This basically forces you to purchase the new book because you have to have the “access code” and further lines the pockets and inflated prices.
Smart move by the publisher. The universities aren't going to do anything about it.
Posted on 5/14/19 at 6:48 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Yep, it’s a racket. I believe they also rotate books. That way older books cannot be sold online. I believe the professors get some kind of kickbacks for switching books
Posted on 5/14/19 at 6:49 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Been like this for 15 years. Everyone trying to get their piece of the bubble. Higher education is fricked.
Posted on 5/14/19 at 6:49 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
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Wtf is this shite?
I'm guessing it's the reason bama athletes wised up and started fricking the bookstore
Posted on 5/14/19 at 6:50 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Textbooks have been a scam long before I remember. One of our professors made a ‘notes’ book for $100 that supplemented the textbook. We got a bunch of extra credit if we showed proof of purchase.
Posted on 5/14/19 at 6:52 am to TheDrunkenTigah
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Been like this for 15 years. Everyone trying to get their piece of the bubble. Higher education is fricked.
Endless student loans will do that.
This post was edited on 5/14/19 at 6:52 am
Posted on 5/14/19 at 6:53 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
If only you didn't lose your money buying crypto at the top, you would have money for books
Posted on 5/14/19 at 6:54 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Youd think you boomer non traditional students would appreciate the new textbooks
It’s like your binders full of women except with textbooks
It’s like your binders full of women except with textbooks
Posted on 5/14/19 at 6:58 am to el Gaucho
Posted on 5/14/19 at 7:02 am to Jones
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If only you didn't lose your money buying crypto at the top, you would have money for books
Lol keep perpetrating that myth. You’re just mad because you got pushed out.
Posted on 5/14/19 at 7:03 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
This has been going on since Lassie was a puppy.
We sale you a book for $200.00, you use it 3 months and we buy it back for $25.00.
That day we sold our books back was always glorious though
We sale you a book for $200.00, you use it 3 months and we buy it back for $25.00.
That day we sold our books back was always glorious though
Posted on 5/14/19 at 7:07 am to PortHudsonPlaya
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Textbooks have been a scam long before I remember. One of our professors made a ‘notes’ book for $100 that supplemented the textbook. We got a bunch of extra credit if we showed proof of purchase.
I remember the best professor I ever had at LSU, Benjamin Martin, would use all his own books as the required reading / textbooks for his courses. To avoid the conflict of interest he sponsored a Tiger in Sri Lanka or somewhere like that and at the beginning of the semester would show pictures and talk about how he uses the money to sponsor the Tiger and not for personal profit.
Posted on 5/14/19 at 7:07 am to Higgysmalls
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Yep, it’s a racket. I believe they also rotate books. That way older books cannot be sold online. I believe the professors get some kind of kickbacks for switching books
They also will change "10 words" and release a new edition which causes everyone to have to buy new since professors almost always use the most current edition. I actually like this because I buy several textbooks a year to learn new subjects. I get books that are 2 editions old for hardly more than they cost to ship. The latest one is a textbook on electric motor theory, the current edition costs over $400 and I paid $15 shipped for the edition published in 2012.
Posted on 5/14/19 at 7:07 am to The Torch
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That day we sold our books back was always glorious though
Hell yeah gotta go to the Gold Club that night!
Posted on 5/14/19 at 7:13 am to GetCocky11
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Smart move by the publisher. The universities aren't going to do anything about it.
The OP didn’t even mention the most insidious part:
How hard they try to “bribe” the professors to use their books and put graded parts of the curriculum behind that paywall.
They most certainly still make traditional textbooks.
They are just pushing professors harder on the e-enabled variety
Posted on 5/14/19 at 7:14 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
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Also “textbooks” are no longer bound apparently. They are loose leaf papers punched with a three hole binder. Wtf is this shite?
this really ticks me off. I dont use my old books often but I sometimes need to go back to them for reference. E-books are convenient but nothing replaces turning through pages and bookmarking. Loose leaf would not stand up to the test of time
Posted on 5/14/19 at 7:15 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
The whole system is a scam. Why would the textbooks be any different?
Posted on 5/14/19 at 7:16 am to The Torch
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we buy it back for $25.00
$25 is too high.
One time they told me they can’t pay me for them, but they will take the books as a “donation.”
Posted on 5/14/19 at 7:28 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
But you have to get the books.
A^2+B^2=C^2 is on page 50 on version 29 and 51 on version 30. As if math changes from year to year. I should be able to use the books my parents used.
And when the professor gives HW questions you don’t get credit because the questions get mixed up from one version to the next. It’s a scam.
A^2+B^2=C^2 is on page 50 on version 29 and 51 on version 30. As if math changes from year to year. I should be able to use the books my parents used.
And when the professor gives HW questions you don’t get credit because the questions get mixed up from one version to the next. It’s a scam.
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