Posted on 02/18/2020 12:31:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Most of my engineering books were North of $200.
And if you go to sell them back, they give you around $30-40.
Real Knowledge —> Bit Bucket.
PCness to rule, especially in STEM.
“Most of my engineering books were North of $200.
And if you go to sell them back, they give you around $30-40.”
Textbooks were a huge scam. I went back when tuition was reasonable, but books, that’s another story. They would change a few sentences here and there, then reorder the chapters to render older editions barely usable. Buy a new book, $150, but it used, $90, sell it back, $25.
RE: Most of my engineering books were North of $200.
Those days are gone... and Pearson, owner of Addison-Wesley and Prentice-Hall knows this, hence the move to reinvent their products.
This is excellent news—the textbook scam had long outlived its usefulness.
It’s a racket.
I never sold a textbook. They’re all I have left from my college education.
ML/NJ
Hopefull, we’ll live to see the brick and mortar/in-person instructor government school racket dismantled. Online learning is vastly more efficient.
Anything published for the digital domain, especially the web, seem to be of lesser quality. No information but plenty of circular links.
I am confident that brick and mortar education is living on borrowed time.
The irony is that the education profession considers itself “progressive” when in fact it is fighting educational progress (in a digital world) tooth and nail.
what an odd thing to say..
Except for the junk classes, i kept all my textbooks. Digital was the big promise for years now. Ask the kids- they want paper. Like newspapers this will bode ill for us. Yet , Universities will continue to circular inclined plane the students on textbooks.
I love keeping books, and I have thousands of them.
However, for research on _obscure_ topics the web is totally amazing.
I kept most of my text books for many years. I finally dumped them after a recent move. I only referred to them twice in the last 30 years. Big waste of time and space.
The “ liberal arts “ courses will still be far-left pablum.
In fact, digital publishers may be even more emboldened to propagandize the impressionable young with nonsense.
I hate DRM'd ebooks
Well, the publishers will do everything they can to stop you from being able to do that with these spiffy ebook editions!
Highschool kids dont have textbooks and it reeally shows in science and math...they are simply spoon fed. I tutor kids in STEM courses. The highschool system in my area is a HUGE FAIL.
Highschool kids dont have textbooks and it reeally shows in science and math...they are simply spoon fed. I tutor kids in STEM courses. The highschool system in my area is a HUGE FAIL.
Material prepared for the web seems to be substandard. I'll give you an example. Microsoft used to publish paper books regarding their tools and libraries. They were reliable and filled with copious amounts of information. They did away with that and now publish information on the web. That material is scant and filled with links to even more incomplete information. Microsoft products can be used now only by observing sample software source files supported with either no comments or useless comments.
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