Students spend $900 for textbooks every year

[AznSAE]

our school has an online book exchange where students buy and sell books to other students for reasonable prices. people are also buying books from india for cheap cheap cheap prices like $2 plus a $30 shipping fee. its the exact same book but with a soft cover instead. i got one last semester for $40 instead of the bookstore price of $120. i do not remember the link. when i find it i will post it.

[AchtungBaby80]

I will definitely be selling my books online instead of at the bookstore. My luck, I always get there and they're like, "We have waaaaaaaay too many of that one, so we can only give you $3.50." Yeah, right...not after I spent $80+...and not so they can just turn around and resell it for $80!

[Rollergirl2001]

Originally posted by AchtungBaby80
I will definitely be selling my books online instead of at the bookstore. My luck, I always get there and they're like, "We have waaaaaaaay too many of that one, so we can only give you $3.50." Yeah, right...not after I spent $80+...and not so they can just turn around and resell it for $80!

Yeah, buybacks are BS. For example, when I sold my French book back, I've only got $3.50 out of $130!

What a ripoff!

[JenMarie]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
$900/year for textbooks sounds like a dream.

Us architecture students--in undergrad OR grad--can pay upwards of $1,000 a SEMESTER for studio supplies; the first semesters are devoted to buying basics like rulers, a drafting board, getting basic computer programs like AutoCAD, Vectorworks, etc. The subsequent ones are all about model supplies, which get used up very quickly.

And that's STILL on top of buying books for classes other than studio.

I feel your pain. Graphic designers had similar expenses. I went through college trying to cut corners. Like limiting my creativity to what my little ink jet could print out rather than spending a zillion bucks at a printer for a piece that would never make the portfolio anyway. Yeah. It sucked.

However, I don't think I have a legal copy of any of the programs I used... but I never said that.

[AznSAE]

what i did last semester was hang out in the campus bookstore and asked the students who are taking that same course if they would like to save money and buy the book from me instead. i sold one of my books for $100. they saved $50 .