So my mom bought my college books today..

[Fennz]

and it was almost $600!. Holy ****! I'm only taking 3 classes too. Bad enough my tuition was almost $1000. I'm only going to a community college too. Can't imagine the cost of an actual university. I should be thankful that my parents are paying for tuition. They'll probably make me pay for my books using my graduation money which is around $3000. So that'll last me the two years. Wow, though. 200 bucks for the Calculus book. How much does Calculus change? What a rip off!

[OrdealByFire]

45 minutes.

[Daemius]

Should've tried to get them off the internet for cheaper imo. I got a trig book that went for 90 bucks used at my uni's bookstore and found it online for 27.

[Lady Siara]

Mine were 400 ish for 4 new ones.

[Daemius]

Mine were 400 ish for 4 new ones.

You has a new title :O That's one of the better ones.

[Mega-Tallica]

Haha, I laugh at you. I'm spending 2,000 bucks just for tuition. I haven't gotten my books yet, but I expect, 4 classes, somewhere around 700 bucks.

[hawkofva]

I wish my tuition was that cheap. I'm out of state, so it's $8,000 per semester. I'm going to be in debt up to my eyeballs when I graduate.

[Daemius]

Just finished my book shopping. What would've cost me around 700 to 800 at the book store only cost me 400 with the help of dear amazon.com :p

[OrdealByFire]

idk why more people don't buy their books off the net.

[bmaninc]

My university costs are around $6,500 per year. I'm only in debt around $7,500 after three years, so I'm happy.

[LibertineStripes]

You'll really enjoy taking your books back and the bookstore either not taking them or giving you like 20% of what they're worth.

Books are highway robbery.

[NoMoreVillains]

I'm spending a bit over $300 for books. I would try to find them cheaper online, but I don't know what books I'm getting until a few weeks before school starts.
However, this semester is slightly different. One of my professors emailed everybody in the class and she gave us the ISBN of the textbook from her class. I managed to buy that book for $30 when it cost $90 at the bookstore. Now I have to refund the copy from the bookstore and wait for the other copy to come in from Brooklyn.

[OrdealByFire]

NO SLEEP TlLL...

[Julio_Strikes_Back]

I get my books for free. Post-secondary enrollment, yo. :cool:

[pacifistWITHgun]

I may still be in high school, but I think my school's policy might just be more ret***ed in that they aren't giving us the list of books we need until after we've started school. Considering the fact that we still have to pay for said textbooks (it's in the same price range) and we all have to get them after everybody else has theirs I'd say it's pretty moronic...

[Lady Siara]

I get my books for free. Post-secondary enrollment, yo. :cool:

I did that last year.

Lovely program. :)

[Joshua12]

Well I don't really have the choice to get my books off the net. I pay for school through loans. Loans that I don't see any of the extra money from until 8 weeks after school starts. So our school gives us an account that we can buy books off of. So I pretty much have to buy my books from the school for their prices. It is total bs. But my mom doesn't just have $400 laying around to give me so it is what I'm stuck with. Luckily enough this year my girlfriends sister is a professor at though school so she is trying to get me them for free. She is a very reliable person so I don't really have my hopes up.

[Apples]

A nice tip: You can undercut many bookstore prices by buying your books direct online from a company like Amazon.com.

Bookstores no longer have the monopoly on things so shop around.

[Daemius]

A nice tip: You can undercut many bookstore prices by buying your books direct online from a company like Amazon.com.

Bookstores no longer have the monopoly on things so shop around.

See? Even Apples thinks Amazon is lovely. :p

[kiggidykev]

When you start paying for your own books, you start to get creative. My last year in university, I didn't buy a single book thanks to reserve lists at the library.

It offends me that campus bookstores have the gall to toss in a brochure explaining that their books are reasonably priced when it's like $120+ for an Intro Japanese text.

[Lady Siara]

I do most of my shopping online, but I had enough money left in financial aid to just get my books at the book store.

[cscwell107]

Book costs are absolutely ridiculous

[bubblegumpop]

Lol I just bought them! It was about 500 or so...god damn classes(3) were 1.5k.:( My loan barely covered my classes, so somehow we have to scrape up 500 bucks. :(

[forrest99]

Im starting college and mine cost 12,500. i got a grant of 5,000 dollars. and thats for the first year. So my first year i owe 7,500 dollars, and that doesnt include books.

[maitee1]

I only do part time schoolin (30yrs old, 2kids, and job)...but yeah my music appreciation book for this term was almost $90. It aint even that big of a book. I would have looked at different places but they didn't have the book online so I had to go to the book store and class starts Monday so I ate it. bah, stupid college

I can't complain about the price of school cuz it is only $83/credit hour plus some other stuff. My one class plus books cost me $480 somethin

[killer_roach]

My books are going to be about $250 for three classes this fall.

Tuition, on the other hand, is just a fuzz under $4,000.

Grad school sucks.

[pacifistWITHgun]

I wonder if the authors get any royalties for these sales....

I'd say they'd be making a rather pretty penny...

[G_tarRoCK3R]

My architecture books were like $150-$200 each -_______- I tried to find the cheapest I could, even buy USED books is better than new. Although I tried to get new, I wanted best condition for my major classes, books I'll hopefully use later in life. I didn't think to use internet til half way into college, Def saves some bucks. One of my $110 textbooks I got for $11 (or 22) use online! :D

I hated buying textbooks. Try to use half.com. REALLY good prices!

[killer_roach]

I wonder if the authors get any royalties for these sales....

I'd say they'd be making a rather pretty penny...

Not as much as you'd think. Unless you're the author of a widely-used entry-level text (hi, Dr. Mankiw!). Thing is, part of the reason they're priced so high is because so few of them are printed... and the more specialized the book, the steeper the price tag.

[CrazyIvan]

Ahhhh.... the good ol' days of college textbook shopping. Back when I entered school, the internet was still a mysterious place where magic things happened, Windows had JUST graduated from 3.11, and Amazon didn't even exist. In other words, other than trying to find a student from the previous year looking for some quick beer/pizza money, you had no choice but to pay full price at the book store.

And my school cost almost $30k a year, so it was downright insulting that they we had to pay nearly $500 per semester for books. (If you calculate for inflation, that's probably close to $900 bucks today.) I still hold a very special place in my heart for my college, but that is one thing I will never forgive.

[Jglaubman]

Go on Amazon or Ebay to get your textbooks. My bookstore was selling my Spanish text book last year for 90 bucks. It turns out this was the last year this book was going to be used. I ended up buying it used on Amazon for $1.89.