Ads coming to texbooks (sic)

AP on Yahoo Finance ^ | 8/15/06 | Justin Pope - ap

[Bon mots]

Are texbooks made in Texas?

[P-40]

It sounds like the book Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace, is coming true. Will the year 2007 by the Year of the Purdue Wonder Chicken? :)

[weegee]

www.bookfinder.com is a good tool to price search books (new and used)

No sense in giving all your money to the Barnes & Noble owned school bookstores...

[yellowdoghunter]

Anything that will help lower the cost of textbooks will be welcomed in my family...:)

[vpintheak]

What, selling books for 75 to 100 dollars or more and changing a couple of words and doing it again next year isn't profitable enough for them?

[weegee]

Publishers answer criticism by saying textbooks are expensive to produce, and note they are clobbered by the rapidly expanding secondary market for re-sales in bookstores and on the Internet. Publishers get nothing from those sales, so they essentially have to recoup their investment in one year's worth of sales.

When SCHOOL bookstores were in charge buying back books (for 10 cents on the dollar), this wasn't considered a "problem". But now that consumers are networking more efficiently (through ebay and half.com) and some book sellers AREN'T pricefixing or pricegouging it is a "problem".

The music industry hates used CD sales too. Remember when Clint Black or some such performer didn't want Sony stocking his CDs at any store that sold used product?

[brytlea]

IMHO college textbooks are a scam perpetrated upon students. I have had professors require texts that were barely even used in class. And many of the texts were basically unreadable (by that I mean very poorly written). I think (could be wrong) that many of these books are written by college professors and it is sort of an incestuous system.
Can you tell my husband and I put ourselves and 3 children thru college?? ;)
susie

[RetiredSWO]

I spent a lot more than $900 on books last year.
Engineering and Science texts are expensive but worth it (future reference).
Liberal Arts books however are a total waste of money (& classes a waste of time).

[KarlInOhio]

Getting a list of text books and edition information a few weeks before the quarter started was like pulling teeth. They did not want the student to be able to special order a text book through another book store and avoid the college's book store price gouging.

[BW2221]

Watching Major League II (a bad movie) that was filmed in 1994, the announcer-character (played by Bob Ueker) has making cracks about the Indian's having ads on the outfield walls because the team was losing money.

Today, teams advertise on everything from the outfield walls to the tarp cover.

[brytlea]

Absolutely. And I always ran into the problem that they ordered too few and so there would have to be a reorder, so you could not have the book when classes started. Idiots.
susie

[I see my hands]

Ads coming to texbooks (sic) [sic]

just teasing!

[LS]

LOL. I wonder what would happen if I put an ad for "Patriot's History of the U.S." in, say, "Enduring Vision"?

[Syntyr]

If you want technical books - www.bookpool.com

Cheap books 1/3 - 2/3 off lots of computer and IT related books.

[CindyDawg]

In theory, I think it is a good idea. In the real world it wouldn't work because we would all be fighting over the advertising.

[demkicker]

What, selling books for 75 to 100 dollars or more and changing a couple of words and doing it again next year isn't profitable enough for them?

No kidding! It's legal racketeering. Schools retire books after one or two years. The poor kids that think they can at least sell them back at the end of a semester for a few bucks are usually surprised to learn their perfectly good books are worth ZERO.

[freedumb2003]

Standard Texbook.

[somniferum]

Seriously. Are there so many new developments in Freshman level physics, calculus, etc that they have to require new editions every year or two? They could still be using books from 1950s.

[NormsRevenge]

lol.. that dang spelling oops is still out there. altho its looks like a local rag or two has corrected it..