04-26-2012, 05:14 PM
Things are changing fast with textbooks but since bookstores, publishers and the universities themselves take a cut in every book sale, it's going to take a long time before costs come down. I know one midwestern university gets several million dollars a year from Barnes & Noble for the books they sell to their students and they depend on that revenue stream for a number of things.
My daughter is a senior and an art major but she had her share of expensive biology and psychology books. Sometimes she bought the book with her roommate and they shared or sometimes she bought the book online and read the library's copy until her book came in. It's true they never seem to get the titles in time to do this kind of online buying. I don't know why this is because I teach at a university and they ask me my book selection six months out.
$1500 is high but you should probably figure for at least half that.
My daughter is a senior and an art major but she had her share of expensive biology and psychology books. Sometimes she bought the book with her roommate and they shared or sometimes she bought the book online and read the library's copy until her book came in. It's true they never seem to get the titles in time to do this kind of online buying. I don't know why this is because I teach at a university and they ask me my book selection six months out.
$1500 is high but you should probably figure for at least half that.