Textbook Prices!!

[Joz]

Re: E-Books: If you can search, leave tabs or bookmarks, and highlight the e-book, I'd say it's worth it. It lacks the portability factor (unless you've a notebook computer or an e-book reader), but I LOVE being able to search online documents for pertinent keywords and text.

It can be a little difficult to read on the computer screen, but I'd think the searchability would make up for that. And, in theory, the E-book should be significantly cheaper, eh?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

With an e-book you cannot make margins in the notes, and in many cases you do not actually purchase the book, but only purchase a license to use it. They generally cost as much as print books do, but you cannot resell or even transfer them to someone else. Amazon has previously yanked ebooks from kindles (lost a BIG lawsuit about it, too). I despise and detest Amazon, but I know that my son has purchased textbooks from them for a fraction of what the campus bookstores want.

 

[PineappleMama]

I can't even look anymore.

Luckily DH's folks agreed to pay for his books, while FAFSA/loan handles his tuition.

 

[CityChicker]

This is a thread that seems to be created every few months, including by me at one point, LOL. Textbooks are unreal expensive. I have had semesters that were well over a $1,000. The couple years my husband and I were in school at the same time, we spent over $5K on textbooks per year! We buy books from various sources, but have found Amazon to be one of the better places to get new AND used textbooks. We have also sold several textbooks there. The whole "E-book" thing is a racket too. At my school anyway, every e-book we have used has had a fee similar to just buying a hard copy. The thing that is even more frustrating is that the fee is mandatory (again, at my school, YMMV). I do like the e-books for the same reason someone else mentioned- they are searchable. That said, I really do not like not having a hard copy, so classes with e-books end up being even more expensive since I frequently buy a textbook as well.

 

[tonini3059]

I buy and sell on half.com and have saved a ton of money.