For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, every year book companies make a new edition for whatever subject you choose. What makes this edition better than the previous edition. Well other than the fact that the subjects were scrambled around-NOTHING! They just keep making new editions that the school supports because they know that the students from the previous year will continue to sell their books to new students. My parents all-ready payed like 900 dollars for my classes, they shouldn't have to pay 80 dollars for a book that has less pages than my Watchmen book.
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Certain subjects have new information discovered about them quite frequently. How would you like an outdated textbook? Also what textbooks do you have that are shorter than watchmen? All of mine are a good 400 pages long at least.
Hm, when I receive a new edition of a book, it is usually way better than the previous one. But then, I don't buy my books - my school buys all the books for us, and then we get the books we need. At the end of the year, we give them all back. We only have to pay a small fee renting the books but it's not nearly as big as the cost of new books. So, my school has to buy the books, and if they think the new edition sux, they won't buy it. (I'm in highschool btw, and the goverment here is as nice to pay for all our schoolbooks since a few years anyway. )
I doubt a publisher would scramble just the pages without adding anything new. And if they do, are the schools really that cruel to enforce the book upon their students when they know the previous version is just as good?
I doubt a publisher would scramble just the pages without adding anything new. And if they do, are the schools really that cruel to enforce the book upon their students when they know the previous version is just as good?