Text Books: Are international edition same as national edition??????

Lala7819
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:45:06 +0000

I don’t know where yucca got the idea that they are illigal, but rest assured they are not. International textbooks are not like bootleg copies of movies, they are the same textbook, from the same publisher (or their foreign counterparts) and by the same author, who also earns money from their sales like with any American textbook.
I never knew they were so inexpensive until I had a few classes with an Indian woman who had all international editions she had bought used for under $15 each… and the American used texts were upwards of $40. In the three classes I shared with her, they had the exact same material, wording, chapters, and page numbers. Basically it was the same book with a different cover slapped on it saying it was the ‘international edition’.
No big deal if you want to save money, and I don’t believe they overhaul the unit systems for international versions of math and science books, though I may be wrong.