As a college professor myself, I can assure you that my Colleagues and me care about the price of textbooks. For example I know of cases when selecting a new textbook, that we managed to play several publishers against each other and end up with one book at a special below-list pricing.
If there is an option (for example Dover has rather cheap editions) I try to offer such books at least as a texbook alternative -- however this is not always an option, if you want to include more modern material in a course.
Alas there also is among some students the attitude that all material covered must be in the textbook (I had students complain, when I used other homework problems or inserted newer material, that this was not in the textbook, and thus they should not be required to know it...). Because of such students I would no dare to use for example a 50 year old calculus book: Admittedly the mathematics did not change one iota, but the old edition of the book will not have all the worked through examples and recipe boxes. Such a book therefore might not be acceptable to every student.
Needless to say the ``kickbacks'' ``LostCluster'' alleges belong mainly in the area of myth: What professors get at most is free copies of textbooks, and I would expect most of us consider selling these unethical.
However textbook prices are mainly set by the market. If you want lower prices
Order books online, probably even from other countries
Use online price comparisons (bestbookbuys and addall are two of them
Get your student organization to handle a better buyback system, in which books are sold student to student without external organizations taking their cut -- Most professors will be happy to use an older edition (after all this means one does not need to change an existing course), but it is awkward if I choose an old edition and then students are not able to get it (or only at inflated prices).
Tell your professors that you rather have a cheaper textbook, than the newest edition or oodles of worked-out examples.
If a textbook is expensive, ask the professor whether there are cheaper alternatives or almost alternatives. (Often there are, but you might have to put a bit more work in sorting out a correspondence of subjects to your course.)
A smallish cheat is that -- due to the size of the room -- the process is composed from two parts (cutting point is when the exhaust rolls) which are smoothed together by CGI.
I don't see a reason why not -- as long as you have a gcc it should compile fine. However you'll need about minimum 40MB or so disk space and 32MB user workspace (after the operating system). I know that some people at least tried to use it on a Zaurus, but I don't know whether they succeeded; you might want to post to the gap-forum mailing list to see whether anyone out there has succeeded with this already.
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Probably the same as if you would draw your own barcode labels and stick them on items in the supermarket.
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As a college professor myself, I can assure you that my Colleagues and me care about the price of textbooks.
For example I know of cases when selecting a new textbook, that we managed to play several publishers against each other and end up with one book at a special below-list pricing.
If there is an option (for example Dover has rather cheap editions) I try to offer such books at least as a texbook alternative -- however this is not always an option, if you want to include more modern material in a course.
Alas there also is among some students the attitude that all material covered must be in the textbook (I had students complain, when I used other homework problems or inserted newer material, that this was not in the textbook, and thus they should not be required to know it...).
Because of such students I would no dare to use for example a 50 year old calculus book: Admittedly the mathematics did not change one iota, but the old edition of the book will not have all the worked through examples and recipe boxes. Such a book therefore might not be acceptable to every student.
Needless to say the ``kickbacks'' ``LostCluster'' alleges belong mainly in the area of myth: What professors get at most is free copies of textbooks, and I would expect most of us consider selling these unethical.
However textbook prices are mainly set by the market. If you want lower prices
A smallish cheat is that -- due to the size of the room -- the process is composed from two parts (cutting point is when the exhaust rolls) which are smoothed together by CGI.
I don't see a reason why not -- as long as you have a gcc it should compile fine. However you'll need about minimum 40MB or so disk space and 32MB user workspace (after the operating system).
I know that some people at least tried to use it on a Zaurus, but I don't know whether they succeeded; you might want to post to the gap-forum mailing list to see whether anyone out there has succeeded with this already.