Haha, I win at textbook buying, finally!
Total price of required books (new): $200 ($150 + $50, ok ok, probably better than most peoples bills this term but that $200 would have wrecked me a little a bit)
Total ... (used, at school bookstore or competing private textbook reseller down the street): $130 (~$30 + $100)
Total ... (purchased through Powells and eBay): $18 ($7 at the Burnside Powells + $4 for the book on eBay and $7 to get it here this week).
Now, admittedly with the $150 book I got a much lower price because I bought the fourth edition. But it's a book on psychological research methodology (the 4th edition was published in 2003) and the professor is absolutely fine with people using the 4th edition -- but the university bookstore and it's "competitor" down the street only stock the 5th edition (for some reason). Also, this same book had a $70 eBook option (no one will be reselling that! buy this and you may as well've bought a used copy then defaced it completely during the term).
So pretty much fuck all ya'll in the textbook publishing business.
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Total ... (used, at school bookstore or competing private textbook reseller down the street): $130 (~$30 + $100)
Total ... (purchased through Powells and eBay): $18 ($7 at the Burnside Powells + $4 for the book on eBay and $7 to get it here this week).
Now, admittedly with the $150 book I got a much lower price because I bought the fourth edition. But it's a book on psychological research methodology (the 4th edition was published in 2003) and the professor is absolutely fine with people using the 4th edition -- but the university bookstore and it's "competitor" down the street only stock the 5th edition (for some reason). Also, this same book had a $70 eBook option (no one will be reselling that! buy this and you may as well've bought a used copy then defaced it completely during the term).
So pretty much fuck all ya'll in the textbook publishing business.