It cost how much...?

They are outrageous, aren't they? My sons are in college and the books are as much as the classes in some cases! When I was taking some courses in law about 5 years ago I bought my books used on Amazon. I was on a tight budget so when the class was over I would re-sell it on Amazon and sometimes I'd get more than I had paid for it! Try doing that--it's much less expensive and you'll break even most times, just like you borrowed the book.

At college, you can have professors wanting to use only their own book to earn a little more. They easily find an editor and fix the price of the book with the editor. Since my college days I have always been good at photocopies and fast bookbinding . It has become a so common method here that they put now a notice on machines in the colleges that it is forbidden to photocopy completely a copyrighted book. In fact, it is not forbidden by the laws of my countries : they authorize private copies for our own private use.

*offers to sell uath the text book "How To Spell Ridiculous Correctly" for the low introductory price of only $119.99*

Quite a few people at my work are going to school for nursing and some of the books go for $200 plus. The best thing to do is buy them used from someone that already finished the classes.

Text books are ridiculously expensive these days. For one semester's worth of books, last time I was in college, it costed me over $500 out of pocket. It's so annoying. AND I bought them all used (the ones that I could.) It's like they're trying to set you up for failure. Some book shops and sites allow you to "rent" textbooks for less than the price of one, which is kind of nice. Wish I would have known about that at the time. Oh well. Keep in mind to sell back the textbooks to the school (or wherever you bought it, they usually do buy-backs) when she's done with them. It's still a rip off but you can still get somethin' for it anyway. Oh and textbook purchases are tax-deductible.

I wonder that myself sometimes! I still wanted to finish an advanced course I took, which I stopped a few years ago. But the tuition cost and books are very prohibitive. I think that at this internet age, where you can get any sort of information online, prescribing an 'only' book to be used in a course, is education's why of getting back some profits.

Even kindergarden kids get ripped off. In many countries, the English medium schools, as opposed to local language, use "Oxford" textbooks which you would think were printed in gold!