Latest Textbook Cost Rant

Parents Forum
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<p>The 10th edition of Halliday/Resnick/Walker Fundamentals of Physics comes in various generic editions:
<a href=“http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002531.html#purchase”>http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002531.html#purchase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>For the hardcover ones, you can get the following choices:</p>

<p>Regular (chapters 1-37) $262.96@MSRP, $209.19@Amazon
Extended (chapters 1-44) $272.95@MSRP, $211.76@Amazon
Volume 1 (chapters 1-20) $179.95@MSRP, $162.80@Amazon
Volume 2 (chapters 21-44) $179.95@MSRP, $153.97@Amazon</p>

<p>Volume 1 + Volume 2 = Extended</p>

<p>A student who will be taking a physics sequence that goes beyond chapter 20 will find that buying the regular or extended version (depending on whether the class uses chapters 38-44) will cost less than buying volume 1 and 2. However, such a book (particularly the extended version) could be rather heavy to carry around.</p>