That reminds me that when I got my Bachelor's at McGill, it cost me $638 per YEAR tuition (1976). Now I'm doing a Master's at SUNY-Stony Brook, and last fall I spent approximately the same just for the first term textbooks.
Calculus texts must be the paradigmatic rip-off. I remember being particularly annoyed with my first-year Calculus text since we only got through half the book in the year, it was a new book so there were no used copies available in Montreal, and the next year, the company issued it as two separate softcover volumes for about a quarter of the price each, so we couldn't even get a good price for ours. Damn them.
I should know, I posted it. Slashdot scooped everyone with the story last Thursday as far as I can tell.
What the hell has Financial Times been reading if they can't cover the story in a timely fashion, and why should we have to read it again. It's a great story but come on!
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That reminds me that when I got my Bachelor's at McGill, it cost me $638 per YEAR tuition (1976). Now I'm doing a Master's at SUNY-Stony Brook, and last fall I spent approximately the same just for the first term textbooks.
Calculus texts must be the paradigmatic rip-off.
I remember being particularly annoyed with my first-year Calculus text since we only got through half the book in the year, it was a new book so there were no used copies available in Montreal, and the next year, the company issued it as two separate softcover volumes for about a quarter of the price each, so we couldn't even get a good price for ours. Damn them.
I should know, I posted it. Slashdot scooped everyone with the story last Thursday as far as I can tell.
What the hell has Financial Times been reading if they can't cover the story in a timely fashion, and why should we have to read it again. It's a great story but come on!