Bookstore idiots

[KMCA]

My girlfriend was paying upwards of $50 for a prof published book. Record was $180 dollars for one book published by the prof. It was also never used in class

[MrsEclipse]

Guy taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system.

Of course, that's one of the most important things you can learn. It will be applicable in almost every area of life!

(See, that's what you tell yourself to justify the waste of time, effort, money, and sanity reserve.)

[otakuneko]

My girlfriend was paying upwards of $50 for a prof published book. Record was $180 dollars for one book published by the prof. It was also never used in class

Crap like that has convinced me to only buy books for course I think I'll need it for. Wait for the first test, then decide.

[Sliceanddice]

I've never had a Prof use a book he or she wrote themselves. ONE Eng Comp teacher had written his own, but didn't use it. He actually mentioned it once, early in class and that was it. I was impressed.

Personally, I think they should be banned from using their own books as a conflict of interest unless the book is made available for free under something like Flat World Knowledge.

i had a teacher who put together her english book.
ts a good one and was pretty decent price
it was awesome full of short stories and essays some i haddn't been able to find for years of looking

[Canarr]

A friend of mine had an economics prof in college who required his entire course to buy the script - not even book - he had made for his lessons. At 20 Euros apiece. He required all students to pay the full fee - no way was he gonna let just one of them buy the script and then copy it - and when they'd all paid, he gave the class one CD with a copy of the script on it - for self-print. Made an extra 600 Euros per class, for nothing.

Consequently, he wasn't overly popular with his courses; my friend made it his personal mission during his time at college to pass on that script for free to every further course that professor had.

[Zombi]

One of the best pieces of advice I've ever been given is: Don't buy the books before you attend the first class. Buy the course reader, which has all the assignments in it, work out which ones you're likely to do, then buy those books. The reader has all the articles and such that you're supposed to refer to, but if you're doing English, there's no way you're going to read 8 books in a semester, especially if you're a full-time student and doing 3 other courses where you're also supposed to read 8 books in a semester!

[Andara Bledin]

The reader has all the articles and such that you're supposed to refer to, but if you're doing English, there's no way you're going to read 8 books in a semester, especially if you're a full-time student and doing 3 other courses where you're also supposed to read 8 books in a semester!

Well, I would read that many books over a semester... but I'm a voracious reader.

The only class I ever had that had a book produced by the instructor was for court reporting, and the book was used by pretty much everyone in the state, not just that school. I never did buy a copy...

^-.-^

[trailerparkmedic]

I only had one professor who required his own book, but it actually worked out well. He taught both business ethics and intro to ethics; the book was generic stuff for the first half of both classes and he e-mailed us chapters for the second half. This made it much easier for us to find used copies in the bookstore. Plus, it was a paperback so it was much cheaper--I got mine for free but even used it was $30.

[MrsEclipse]

One of the best pieces of advice I've ever been given is: Don't buy the books before you attend the first class.

I've always bought the books as early as I could as cheap as I could get 'em, but returning them after the first class was always an option. I hate not knowing I'll be able to have the book in time.

A friend of mine had an economics prof in college who required his entire course to buy the script - not even book - he had made for his lessons. At 20 Euros apiece. He required all students to pay the full fee - no way was he gonna let just one of them buy the script and then copy it - and when they'd all paid, he gave the class one CD with a copy of the script on it - for self-print. Made an extra 600 Euros per class, for nothing.

No part of this story sounds legal! Please tell me this isn't legal!

I'm glad you made it your mission to stick it to him. Hell, I wanna stick it to him and I've never met him. I try to not approve of piracy, but it's really, REALLY hard sometimes. I mean, you probably couldn't even hear the guy lecture. Every time he moved his brass ones would probably clank together too loudly.