College Textbooks Waste Of Money?

A student in Lima, Peru hates buying books for college classes that never end up being. Ana Kasparian and Jayar jackson break it down on TYT University.

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[lifestandstillhere]

Do these people EVER have actual professors on this channel who answer questions related to classes, books, and success in and beyond the college classroom? And to blame professors AT ALL for rising book costs is crazy--as if we have a shred of a shred of time to plan as nefariously as this video implies.

[Gr4yW0rld]

Skip the whole damn thing. dont buy the damn college books, dont go to college. Go on the nnet and get e-books and study yourself and hopefully in the future colleges can just make you pay 1,000$ to take all your final's exams and give you the degree that you proven you deserve. in the information era, there is no reason anything should be this fucking expensive

[ChakatBlackstar]

That's the case with all programming classes, like the C++ language class that student was in, or actually any computer related class actually. In part it seems to be because those books are practically out of date by the time the students get them. One class I had in 3D modeling gave us books(our school included that in the tuition fees) that were brand new, custom ordered, but were already out of date because of a few new updates were made to the computer program we were using.

[dojOdRiFTeR]

just torrent the textbooks don't be an idiot and complain especially if your in arts only engineering, med school, law students should complain we can't get all the books for free heck i remember in 1st yr one of my textbooks cost more than 3 textbooks in arts

[shamwow1996]

@Gr4yW0rld You're ridiculous.

[Todda468]

Keep it in good condition, think about it, if for example after you finish your class and a lot of people sell their books there might be more books then people for the next class, in this kind of situation (expecially for more specialised classes where selling to students outside your uni is not possible) doodling on the back cover can cost you $50

[Todda468]

The problem is that its not like they just place the book on the shelf and thats it, those bookshops face the risk that the book wont be used next year, then its a complete loss os $15, all you have to do is walk in and drop it off, maybe colelct a cheque a few days later at most. With amazon you have to go to a lot more trouble.

[americanidol434]

college is a scam

[Fmdvot]

don't go to college is the message

[MegaAnonEMouse]

bookbyte. That's all I have to say.

[drrx8]

At some schools, they are putting a paper voucher in the textbooks, shrink wrapping them, and thus forcing you to buy the book. When you do, you hand in the voucher to the professor for "credit", else, you fail.

[drrx8]

I used to buy used textbooks from any source, and sell it back to the university bookstore (2000, before amazon was big). I usually checked the ISBN first before buying the used book just to make sure I could get a profit.