Most of my engineering books were North of $200.
And if you go to sell them back, they give you around $30-40.
“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.
Anything published for the digital domain, especially the web, seem to be of lesser quality. No information but plenty of circular links.
And you competed with Indian and Communist Chinese Engineering students that use photocopied or downloaded textbooks.