Why are textbooks so expensive?

Altsustar
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:42:40 +0000

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.)

I got my book from abebooks.com, but there are probably hordes of other places to get used books out there.

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.