Textbook Pricing

[cajun_lannister]

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

No thats for the E-book version you will always have access to it .

[CajunNation]

When will humanity learn?

Everything digital will fail.

[cajunfan96]

The Corndog Media Mafia already running with this story.

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

Has anyone heard of the College of Education Textbook, "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children"

[Cajun90]

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.

Do you know this for a fact??? I'm not buying it.

MANY textbooks today are electronic and there are multiple ways to protect them. Certainly can be taken advantage of but why this one book? If the publishers answer was to create an outrageous price for the online version then it only shows they are incapable of staying current with technology.

[CajunEXPRESS]

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.

Actually that’s not exactly what the university said. They’re suggesting that they wanted to discourage the use of the online book for the benefit of the students. Apparently there’s something lacking in the on line version.

You may be right, they’re simply trying to keep down book sharing, but again that’s not what’s being pushed as a reason.

[CajunVic]

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.

I would venture to say that NO level 201 book is worth $1000

[CajunAmos]

No thats for the E-book version you will always have access to it .

Someone told me the ebooks are available for the semester you pay for them.

[cajun_lannister]

Someone told me the ebooks are available for the semester you pay for them.

I still have E-books from when I was in school maybe it changed but i have my Calc & history book on a USB

[CajunVic]

Someone told me the ebooks are available for the semester you pay for them.

I suspect lanny is spouting off about something he has no knowledge. I know of nothing in this world that you can't put your hands on that have even a remote possibility of being "always" available.

[cajun_lannister]

I suspect lanny is spouting off about something he has no knowledge. I know of nothing in this world that you can't put your hands on that have even a remote possibility of being "always" available.

Guess I have a magical flashdrive with .pdf files of history and math books.

My wife has a lot of her grad school books on her Amazon account and can access them to this day.

[RaginScotsman]

Made the mistake of watching KLFY tonight. They had this story and opted for ULL tonight in the graphics.

Is it that freaking hard? You’re a local news channel.

[Ole Colony]

Made the mistake of watching KLFY tonight. They had this story and opted for ULL tonight in the graphics.

Is it that freaking hard? You’re a local news channel.

Isn’t ULL correct when referring to the school and not athletics?