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.
This is excellent news—the textbook scam had long outlived its usefulness.
I never sold a textbook. They’re all I have left from my college education.
ML/NJ
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 hate DRM'd ebooks
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.
Remove physical textbooks, fill space with bigger margins!
That first year of college back in the last century, I spent damn near 600 dollars on books.
I didn’t buy all the ones I was supposed to. Had no desire to go completely broke.
So now you’ll be forced to pay $250 for a digital file with a license that will expire after the term and it will just go fffffffffttttt…...not even to be resold to the bookstore at 5 cents on the dollar.
Online textbooks are nearly useless. As difficult as it is to teach students to use print textbooks, even when they use e- or online books, they learn next to nothing.
I’m an academic coach. Have watched this w/ 1000s of kids.
I even approached Pearson to put together a program to teach teachers to teach students how to use textbooks. Pearson does not care, as they sell textbooks whether kids use them or not, and digital is far more profitable.
I sure hope they weren’t planning on having those’textbooks’ used on Chinese made computers or computers made with Chinese components...not many to be had for a while.
Textbook PDFs are space hog users so I shrink them by converting them to DJVU.
You don’t even need to buy the print edition in a college bookstore anymore.
College textbooks are going digital for the same as encyclopedias. Its easier to keep content current online.
In the late 1960’s Samuelson’s Economics sold more books than any other college textbook in any major.
Comprehension when reading digital texts is 10% less than with a printed text. Worse, estimates of comprehension are 10% better. That means that people think they’re learning more when they’re learning 20% less.
Another stunning leap into further down into the educational abyss.
(Did my master’s thesis on digital vs. print comprehension. It’s scarier than you dare think.)
Another thing I've done for technical books is to buy the Indian version. Softcover and really thin paper, but you can get a $200 textbook for $10 or $20. They have warnings on the cover like "If read outside of South Asia you will go blind and your genitals will fall off". Well, not that extreme, but they do warn that they are only authorized for sale in South Asia.
Pearson should be banned from doing business in this country. They bribed obama and Jeb Bush.