How Would You Select a Textbook?

benj_e asks: "I'm thinking about doing some adjunct teaching at a couple of local community colleges, and have the opportunity to choose the textbook for an online JavaScript class. In the training classes I've given in the corporate world, I didn't have the need to select a text - there were no textbooks for the software I was teaching students to use aside from the manual. I'm pretty sure I want something with WebCT or Blackboard content, but other than that I'm, well, clueless. So, for all you educators out there - how do you go about selecting a textbook? What goes into your decision making process?"

Comments

From a student's point of view ...

[shadowkoder]

The professor goes into a bookstore and picks the most expensive textbook on the shelf, and dealing with the on-campus bookstore just adds salt onto the wounds.

don't go with the green ones

[TheGratefulNet]

they're not ripe.

/wanda

not texas

[Ark42]

Basically, just make sure not to get a texas-censored version of whatever you get.