Thanks for making me cart my books all the way across Halifax only to not buy them back… Only to tell me that there will be a ‘new edition’ because the publisher has to change 7 words and then next year charge students 70 dollars more for it. What a fucking joke!
What’s the point? Even if you do buy it back it’s always less than half the price and we’ve used it for half a year! Whoop de fucking do. Get your hand out of my fucking pocket and stop calling it a book buy back!!! —Heading to the library instead
This article appears in May 6-12, 2010.
Yeah, it is a rip-off, I think they create “new” editions each year just to make money…friggin’ waste of money…ah I don’t miss University…where else can you buy a $50.00 novel that sucks and you will never read again …
This is why I don’t miss University. My first year was in 2000, so everyone had to come out with a “Millennial Edition” so there were no used books in the book store, and I wasn’t smart enough to know which books I would need and which ones I didn’t.
Being that I’m a senior in university now, I pretty much never bother with book buyback unless there’s a book I really know I’ll never want to see again.
When I got to be a senior in university, I never actually bothered with buying books.
sarey: ditto.
Yeah, this is the oldest scheme in the book (get it?!) and it doesn’t shock me anymore. Do yourself a favour next year and buy used.
abe books get the international editions … exactly the same text book 1/8 the price AND you don’t have to stand in line forever at the bookstore.
college books, every students hate.
I used to grab the discarded text books at the book buy back. It saved me about $300 and gave me additional reference material for my assignments.
My best find was a 2nd edition business law text. I enrolled in an intro law class that required the 8th edition of that book. I could only find one variance between the two editions. In a sample case 3/4 way through the text the first names of two people were changed. I can’t remember the exact names, but the revision made sure to keep the names starting with J. It was as if James became Jacob and Jill became Jackie. That was it!!!
haha…the 7 word change. Reminds me of news last week:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/17/au…
“It is a tiny misprint, but an Australian publisher had to pulp a cookbook after one recipe called for “salt and freshly ground black people” to be added to the dish, AFP reported Saturday.”
Sounds like “Fun in the Kitchen With Robert Mugabe”
I wish my Uni texts were only $50 ea… lets try $130+ on average.
that’s why I never sold mine back.
hell, if you want the paltry sum they’re willing to give you back, just RENT your books out to some new student the next year and you still get to keep them.
win/win
I still kept mine because they either
1. will likely never change ala calculus
or
2. still are helpful in certain situations ala cobol and java 1.2