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by 03Lightningrocks
Sun Jul 03, 2011 6:37 pm
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Topic: Why I Hate College Bookstores
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Re: Why I Hate College Bookstores

tbrown wrote:
The Annoyed Man wrote:Well that's just pure corruption. It literally costs pennies to reproduce an electronic file. I'm amazed.
Why? They're following a model very similar to iTunes. Buying a whole album from iTunes costs about the same as buying the physical CD. They cut down production and distribution costs, but the consumer doesn't share the savings.
I hadn't looked at it that way, but your right. I usually buy the CD and then put the songs on my IPODS and IPHONE. I like having the CD and artwork. I recently found a great deal on the Led Zeppelin Definitive Collection on Amazon. iTunes had it for 99.00 with no artwork. I paid 119.00 for the "real deal". It kind of bugged me that iTunes wanted almost a hundred dollars for a digital copy while the hard copy CD set was only 20 dollars more. Back to the topic of digital books. I have found a few Kindle books that where around 20% of the hard copy costs but these were high volume books. Text Books probably get a premium due to the low volume. Regardless... the books can be harder to pay for than the tuition. Then again, don't get me going on the cost of housing near a campus. Talk about a rigged game!!! My son utilized a combination of student loans, scholorships and help from me and his grandma but is still in debt for almost 60K. He has friends who have amassed 150K and more in student loans. That would buy a house!!!!
by 03Lightningrocks
Sun Jul 03, 2011 1:48 pm
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Topic: Why I Hate College Bookstores
Replies: 41
Views: 5950

Re: Why I Hate College Bookstores

My son went to UTA his first four years. He was on an "all you can eat" tuition plan. He would take 18 hours or more of classes per semester. I can remember getting bills for the books that would be over a thousand bucks in total per semester. This was a high end occasion but spending 800 was a regular situation. he would take them back and they would offer him 20 bucks for 800 dollars in books. We would attempt to buy used books to save money but the professors would play games with book requirements and updates that would force him to buy new or buy books with missing information. As the years went by, he and the others would make it a game attempting to end around this travesty. They would share books and even swap out with each other to keep the book store from ripping them off. There were times when he would throw them away rather than let that bookstore make a buck off the scam.

He spent three years at U of H school of law and the situation was just as bad but we didn't have to buy books for as many classes so it lowered the total cost. 250 dollar books were not an unusual occurence. While politicians are pretending they want to lower tuition costs for the "poor"(those who refuse to work), the schools are simply sticking it to the students in other ways.

Meanwhile, the socialists that represent Obama and his anti-American beliefs are making every attempt to corrupt the minds of the students who are there because of parents with conservative values. It is quite a twist watching a student who has been brainwashed in the ways of socialism, turn away from the values of Obamanism once they go out in the real world.

When libtard Professors preach equality and "share the wealth", they are talking about everybody else, it is OK for them to screw over hard working people for a buck.
by 03Lightningrocks
Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:21 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Why I Hate College Bookstores
Replies: 41
Views: 5950

Re: Why I Hate College Bookstores

The professors are in on the scam as well.

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