Off the wall

I've got a daughter at TCU, Danny. Care to feel more fortunate? I can send you her bill....

Yeah, Danny, but he will get $25 back at the end of the semester when he sells it back...

Did he check to see if a used copy was available either at the bookstore or online? My daughter, who is a sophomore in college, rarely if ever has had to buy a book at retail price.

casey, yes, he is usually pretty good about that, but this time no luck. The savings he did get from the other classes will help off set this cost.

Tycho, so true. Buy a book for $200, sell it for $25,
and they turn around and sell it for $50.

Tx, we looked at TCU before UTA, no thanks, you can keep that bill!

gettextbooks

I had some excellent luck with this site for two kids' books. It "shops" pretty much all the used online sources for you.

Or, you could just quote a little Mark Twain to your son: Life's too short to learn German.

re: COST $250

I'd always heard the Hitler dictated Mein Kampf to Rudolph Hess while they shared a jail cell.

Might this be the original copy?

Colleges are in the business to make money... Son's textbooks are astonishing in price... another example of how they make a few extra dollars. He is at a UNC system school so our tuition is very reasonable. I guess.

We have had some luck with textbooks.com. What bites is when we ask how often he used a particularly expensive book ---- We don't ask anymore.

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Unerhört!

gotwood, you disappoint me!

I expected something like this from you

"Dummkopf"

I had a college prof who made his book required reading. He did two 300 student lectures a week. That's 600 books time $30 (70's money) or $18,000 which he got a good chunk of the proceeds (off beat publisher). The NYT's review said, "I can't believe this was written by a literate person, much less a professor.

I heard a prof complain that the textbook company "only gave me this crummy lamp this year" for selecting their book for his class...
I spose by now it's a nice leather sectional or a plasma screen.

I can't complain; I get all the red pens I want and free ice for my shoulder.

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Just received a call from my son telling me that he had to purchase his book for his German class today.
COST $250. What the @$%#! Should I be shocked or feel fortunate

Thats absurd IMO