ARENT COLLEGE STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO BE BROKE?! and they expect us poor, financially disabled students (who are only trying to better their education by the way) to pay 115.00 for a single textbook!!! this semsters books would have cost me 365.00 if I would have bought all of the ones I needed! I cant afford that and so I just will have to do without the books I didnt buy! I am ranting, Im sorry.
2006-09-19 03:11:18 · 7 answers · asked by anna_k_annie 2 in Social Science ➔ Economics
I spent over $400 for textbooks this semester and that was with a discount and buying some off of Amazon. The books are so expensive to make money for the textbook companies and for the college bookstores. Colleges use this revenue to fund other programs. Tuition is just not enough for most colleges to meet their expenses so they try and recoup money where ever possible.
2006-09-19 03:19:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Textbooks are expensive because the demand for them is so limited. Imagine, if a publisher accepts a book for all people interested in a subject, they will price it like any other non-fiction book. If it's only for a student market, maybe only for students at some colleges or of a specialist subject not widely studied, the market is very limited.
As others have suggested, you can help yourself by sharing books with other students and/or using the library -- if necessary, on inter-library loan as I do.
2006-09-23 08:59:10 · answer #2 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a college student also as well as a student worker for the college. I know what you mean...they rob us blind for our books. I don't know how your school does it but ours at the end of the semester will buy back our textbooks for half price. It's still ridiculous. Does your school have a WorkForce Development center? If they have something along those lines, they should have a book loan program. I hope yours does, we do. To try to help mean while, you can try and form study groups or something to help you. Pell Grants don't always help either....we get those after everything we need has been purchased but yet, they are supposed to buy our books, etc.....
good luck to you and i hope it all works out for you!
2006-09-19 10:21:11 · answer #3 · answered by socaldollbaby73 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the market is cornered. It's supply and demand. The demand will never diminish, because if the instructor says you need the book, then by god you're gonna get the damn thing. Thus, since it's mandatory that you have the book, they can charge whatever the hell they want. There's also the fact that they're counting on most college students to have government loans or scholarships or what-have-you, and you know the government always offers you more money than you need. Welcome to Life.
2006-09-19 10:20:13 · answer #4 · answered by gilgamesh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel your pain. When I was in school, I worked in the school bookstore. That's where I found out that the bookstore funds a lot of the different programs on campus, so that's why the prices are higher. See if you can team up with a classmate and share books.
2006-09-19 10:20:13 · answer #5 · answered by hopebaymama 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm lucky - I attend the University of Wisconsin - River Falls, where we don't have to buy textbooks. ;) We just check them out from the Textbook Library.
2006-09-19 10:22:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have heard this said before to...and i have heard there is some that is 200 dollars a book...it beats me why they are so high except they know you have to have them...and i do not go to school but i do not think they should be so high....
2006-09-19 10:21:13 · answer #7 · answered by sanangel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋