College Textbooks: Are they overpriced?
My daughter is taking a class at a local university, and I almost fell over when she told me that the book for the class costs about $150, and it's only a paperback book. My question is whether schools and publishers charge too much money for books, particularly when they cost almost as much as the class itself. What do you think? And in such cases, is there anything a student can do to find cheaper books? Share your ideas.
Randall
11 comments:
Here in Brazil most college textbooks are overpriced - especially books whose publishers are from outside the country. Undoubtedly, schools and publishers have been charging too much money for them. Thus, my wife and I usually buy books online. They're cheaper and it doesn't take long to have them delivered. Some books are delivered right on the following day.
In China, I also think college textbooks are overpriced. We can bought used one from Seniors, it is much cheaper than buy a new one. But the college or teachers will not inform if they would change the textbooks or not in advance. As a result of this, I spend more money! Buy a used one, but out of date, and buy a new one.
Eventually, I found they're similar. The differences are different typeset, better paper quality, higher price. If you stick to use the used one, you'll encounter some problems, you cannot quickly and correctly find the contents which the teacher said.
Nowadays, I give up to buy books. I read mostly online, or borrow from library. Buying book online is more an more popular in China, but not me.
In Dominican Republic people who doesnt have mney for buy a new textbooks usualy buy a used textbooks already because they think is the same thing then the new ones...
it is same as indonesia
In El Salvador books are expensive too! and a lot of it are from abroad. Its depend of how much you need the book: Do you need it to make your homeworks? Better to buy it; Do you need it just for study not too often...go to the library.
In Viet Nam, most students don't have enough money to buy college textbooks, they are really overpriced. We often buy the copies of textbooks, or buy used books from seniors. We also borrow books from library of the university, however there are some libraries where we only can read, not borrow. I think there are many various useful materials in libraries for students to explore so we should take advantage of reading as many books as possible in libraries.
I don't have a web for buying textbooks.
The textbooks for the scholar year are expensive for the students.
I think textbooks are really overpriced in Hong Kong. The companies keep making amendment on those textbooks and students here are not able to buy a cheaper used book from the shops or online.
Textbooks are great burdens for my family.
Hi My name is Junaid Saeed and I live in Pakistan . College Text are very over-priced, mostly the books which are published outside the country. But we can find some used one or photocopy print here.
It's getting more expensive to buy textbooks for studying in secondary school in Hong Kong. I have a sister studying in F.3 and she has to pay nearly$3000 for the new books used for the whole year.
I really doubt if students need the books which worths such high prices and the "value" of the books.Sometimes there is no need to add so many colourful pictures in some textbooks like English books,Maths. books etc. What make it worse is that it is the pictures,besides the increasing price of paper,raise the prices!
Some subjects simply need no books like liberal studies. Publishers sell this kind of books only in order to earn higher profits but not for students' goods.
Hi! I'm from Russia. In my country every university has a library. Students can use books during their tuition. It's free. But if you want to buy a new books, you'll pay much money. We also photocopy a necessary book, because sometimes you can't find that one and it's a lot cheaper than to buy.
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