School Books Options

[lagos]

How can they get away ripping people off so badly on college text books? Its disgusting. A normal book that you can get in a book store for 20bucks will be sold in the college book store for at least 60$. My sister just got done buying a book for her typing class... $130 for a 20 page book that has nothing but typing exercises in it!

Today however was the icing on the cake. Last week I went to buy a physics book, that comes bundled with a lab kit that I need for the lab class. They were all sold out, so I had to special order one. A whole week goes buy and they still didn't get the book back in stock. I noticed that they had one copy of the book used...so I thought, great, I'll cancel my order and just buy the used book and a lab kit instead of waiting on the bundle I ordered. So, I get to the register, they refund the $83 I paid for the special order, and ring me up for the used book and lab kit.... this time.... its $109 because I didn't buy the books bundled! WTF!!! They are charging me more money for a used book! God damn crooks.

[NgoFcukinWay]

I hear ya on that. At my school, they offer a book lending program where students pay 10%, but it's only good for Faculty & Staff.

I don't think the college gets much from the bookstores. Maybe rent from taking up space on the campus. I know the schools have a contract with retailers and from there, the retailer sets the price of the book, but outside of that whether or not the school gets a share of the profit, I don't know much more. *Shrug* I can always ask though.

This post has been edited by NgoFcukinWay: Jan 28, 2009 - 1:46 AM