Why an expensive text?

What a spectacle. Let all the low income students come into a library and fight for a single book. Its like mad max and the thunderdome

 

I never saw more than about six students in there at one time - I used to go there occasionally on Sunday afternoon - mostly I was the only student. I used an old version text and just went there to write down assigned problems.

 

Textbooks - price gouging according to the economist
Higher education: Why textbooks cost so much | The Economist

 

On Friday, we received an e-mail from the administration at my University informing us that since the university has an exclusive contract with Barnes and Noble (our bookstore), we are not to circumvent the bookstore, and to inform our students that they should purchase their books at the University Bookstore.

 

And the universities get kick backs from the sales at the bookstore...

-Matt

 

I can't speak for our faculty, but I'll weigh in...

On the one hand, I am an employee of the University...

On the other hand...I know that some of our students struggle financially...

Shawn