Textbook Pricing

[Gumbeaux]

The Corndog Media Mafia already running with this story.

http://www.wbrz.com/news/students-ou...line-text-book

[LaCajunsFan]

The Corndog Media Mafia already running with this story.

http://www.wbrz.com/news/students-ou...line-text-book

the corndogs need to focus on their own issues....like having to signifcantly lower their admission standards because they are so freaking broke.

[Cajun90]

Kind of ironic..... a $999.00 book on accounting. You certainly will start to understand the debit side of that journal entry real fast.

[RaginScotsman]

Don't they have their own stuff to worry about?

Well, what's that story behind it? Does the book have all the exam answers too?

[RaginScotsman]

The advertiser just posted the story. The publisher set the price to discourage the students from buying the material from the website and not the hard copy from the bookstore. Not the smartest of moves, but there's nothing to see here. People freaking out about it on social media clearly just read the headline.

[Policarp]

So the student who started all this garbage is the one who errored all along by not buying book correctly. Idiot.

[CrazyCajun]

So it’s ok to ridiculously over charge for tuition to take the class but it’s wrong to over charge for an online book?

[cajun_lannister]

Just rent the darn thing like we all did.

[LouisianaB]

People were sharing electronic versions of the book. Like it or not, this is a product that a lot of people worked on and if everyone shares electronic versions, money is not made. This isn’t the university. It’s the publisher.

[Policarp]

People were sharing electronic versions of the book. Like it or not, this is a product that a lot of people worked on and if everyone shares electronic versions, money is not made. This isn’t the university. It’s the publisher.

Same thing is happening with Netflix, Hulu etc.....students are sharing passwords.

[LouisianaB]

Same thing is happening with Netflix, Hulu etc.....students are sharing passwords.

I’m not 100 percent sure, but I do think sharing accounts for books may be illegal.

It’s clear that this story is exaggerated. Publisher mad because people are sharing, so it marked up price on electronic version. Regular version price didn’t go up.

[CajunVic]

Just rent the darn thing like we all did.

I'm pretty sure that is a rental price. It's on-line.