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My son just emailed me that he needs to buy a $200 book for his linear algebra class. sigh I feel old. I remember when new texts were less than $100

Posted by landbeck Jan 7 '11, 13:50

Even in law school the new ones were never much more than that...

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Ebay? -- nm - Beaker Jan 7, 13:55 2
- It's on eBay, but some of the recent sales are complaining that they are getting the international edition (instead of the US one). Different homework -- nm - landbeck Jan 7, 13:56 1
  - Are the two different? I never bought one, but from what I have seen they are the same. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jan 7, 13:59
That is ridiculous. $200 for an algebra book? I have never paid more than like $150 for a textbook, even that was extremely rare. - James Bond (aka Igor) Jan 7, 13:55
Seriously, it's a problem. - nubby Jan 7, 13:53 2
- I would hate to have all etexts. They are nice for searching and stuff.. but not for actual reading. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jan 7, 13:58
- He's doing his homework for the time being via the parts of it that are available google preview -- nm - landbeck Jan 7, 13:57
can you get it on amazon? -- nm - peglegpete Jan 7, 13:51 3
- We can! Some body point me to the way I can buy it via the ST shop; it's only $121 at Amazon. -- nm - landbeck Jan 7, 13:55 2
  - Just go to the Amazon link on the left and click through to the main page. -- nm - MojaveMeg Jan 7, 13:59 1
    - Easy! So I can buy it at this link, and Bery gets some micro credit? -- (link) - landbeck Jan 7, 14:04
it is such a racket -- nm - Epiphany Jan 7, 13:50

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