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Amazon "Invades" College Campus With Media Center (businessinsider.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Amazon opened its first media center on a college campus, including couches, conference tables and TVs with game controllers, as well as a full-time Amazon staffer and a package pickup station. Since 40% of the boxes delivered to Penn are from Amazon, it will be installed in one of the dining halls, according to CNET, offering Amazon Prime members same-day or next-day delivery for more than 3 million items, from textbooks to toothpaste. Amazon already has pickup points on five college campuses, and hopes to add five more by the end of the year, in an effort to compete with 748 college bookstores run by Barnes and Noble.
One analyst told CNET, "They just want to hook you when you're 20."
One analyst told CNET, "They just want to hook you when you're 20."
Sounds like the book publishers and their complicit teachers merely didn't manage to plug the used book loophole in your particular case.
Usually, the only difference between textbook editions is that they shuffle and renumber the problems at the end of each chapter. So you borrow the latest edition from a friend, and photocopy the problem sets. Then you can use the old book for learning, and the photocopies for homework.