<p>My AP Econ textbook next year is $188… dublew tee eff? The cheapest copy I can find on Amazon is $109</p>
<p>;_;</p>
<p>Because they have low and relatively inelastic demand.</p>
<p>There are a lot of sites that sell used books. My AP World History book was $160 on amazon, and I bought a used copy for $14. That low and inelastic demand makes used textbooks worth very little.</p>
<p>your school makes you buy your own textbooks?..wow, and i thought the budget crisis in MY state was bad :b</p>
<p>jkjkjkjkjkjkjk</p>
<p>ya…why DO they cost so much? there are plenty of quality AP Econ textbooks out there…therefore the demand shouldn’t be very relatively inelastic</p>
<p>^ private school, so maybe that’s why.</p>
<p>where did you buy that AP world text from?</p>
<p>Cost depends on the edition. If it’s a new edition there are very few used on the market, so they don’t have to take much off the price.</p>
<p>The supply of used textbooks is smaller than you would think.</p>
<p>I go to a public school, but our funding is pretty bad, so we pretty much have to buy everything. (Sports equipment, science lab equipment, textbooks, etc.)</p>
<p>I got my book from abebooks.com, but there are probably hordes of other places to get used books out there.</p>
<p>We pretty much have to buy most of our books (and everything else. yeah, go State of California, highest taxes in the country and you give us this in return.), and yeah, some of my books are an edition or two behind. It really doesn’t matter that much. Nothing you learn in high school will change in three years.</p>
<p>California doesn’t have the highest taxes in the country…</p>
<p>Alright, New York and New Jersey probably take that dubious achievement away from us, but California has ONE of the highest at the very least.</p>
<p>california should declare chapter 7 bankruptcy (liquidation), and use that as an excuse to restructure the government (and budget)</p>
<p>Feynman on textbook proceedings in CA: [Corruption</a> in textbook-adoption proceedings: ‘Judging Books by Their Covers’](<a href=“http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm]Corruption”>http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm)</p>
<p>I also like this article: [A</a> Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education | Edutopia](<a href=“http://www.edutopia.org/textbook-publishing-controversy]A”>A Textbook Example of What's Wrong with Education | Edutopia)</p>
<p>Sigh… budget crisis… </p>
<p>[Slideshow</a> - Opinion - 65 cartoons on the economy](<a href=“http://www.ocregister.com/photos/span-2367070/pid2367134]Slideshow”>http://www.ocregister.com/photos/span-2367070/pid2367134)</p>
<p>My French I book in 8th grade was $180.</p>
<p>I know the deal with textbook prices. They’re unreasonably HIGH!</p>
<p>If you buy them online, it’s really easy to get the wrong edition. (Which sucks because page numbers and problem numbers are different. Sometimes even content flips around!)</p>
<p>But my AP Chem. textbook next year is supposed to be around $150 used. o.O</p>
<p>"Because they have low and relatively inelastic demand. "</p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>But, yeah. Suppliers know that you will buy it anyways, hardcover books are actually kinda expensive, the paper is more expensive, it takes a lot of work to make a textbook, etc</p>