textbooks

Introductory Statistics makes my head hurt just thinking about it.

Good luck man, hope you knock em dead!

I feel comfortable with it; I do quite a bit of self-educating and I studied statistics when I first started studying the nuts and bolts of least squares methods. These 3 classes complete the requirements for me to obtain an Associate of Science degree.

how did you va with no 4 year? i thought they required it?

Their requirements are similar to GA but they require 12 years experience without a degree plus classes in certain subjects.

good to know. how is the test up there compared to GA?

It was a tough test. 2 hr exam and it took me every bit of the 2 hrs. Lots of material covered.

Try Amazon.com next time! College book stores are a ripoff.....

Books were over priced when I was in school back in the 80's!

I bought the statistics book from Amazon; bought the others at another site, either half.com or one of the other ones.

I was looking through some of my old surveying textbooks and found most still have the price stamped inside the front cover. Breed, Hosmer (and Bone) "Surveying" - $7.95, "Advanced Surveying" - $8.95, "Route Surveing" - $12.95 (expensive isn't it). Wow how times have changed.

Andy

Textbooks ? Just Imagine This

You bought your food or gasoline at a store that was required to be open year round but has the majority of it's food or gas sales during a 2 week period in the fall or dead of winter.

Those stores buy from wholesalers that must ship product only twice a year and maintain unsold inventory until the next cycle.

Also consider:

College textbooks are selected by professors who think they know more than any other professor in the world based on reviewing free samples provided them, don't really know the price and if they did do not have to buy said item anyway. Some professors select several texts and intend to use only a few chapters from each. The material to be covered may be the same in each text but the professors prefer the different slants.

The majority of students are parent supported and have no inkling of value yet.

Truth be told I don't think textbook prices have increased as fast as tuition based on college experience circa 1970 and 2000.

Paul in PA

Textbooks ? Just Imagine This

It is a racket for the publisher, writer, schools and the teachers. I worked as a buyer for a major textbook seller for a year or so once.
Who do you think that I bought from?
The students/parents are the ones that pay.

Textbooks ? Just Imagine This

I had to take a class from a law school professor who required we buy 4 books ... they were all written by him. Even better, he never once referred to the books during his lecture.

Anyother good situating is when you get caught in an edition change semester. You can't sell back your books from the previous semester, and you can't buy used books.

Is that kind of stuff available on an e-reader?

I hope 'they' can get this right.

It just seems to me that very soon we should not have to be carrying all those big expensive paper textbooks around anymore.

Geodesy by Bomford, 4th edition was $160.00

20 years ago.

For the last 37 years, I have taught from the latest edition of "Surveying - Theory and Practice" by Anderson & Mikhail; the current edition is 7th. I think it's the best text in English, and that's what I require for several of my courses. It's expensive and it's the best, so that's what I require. I do not make a dime out of the sales, and the publisher does not offer any freebies to me. I don't care if some of the students don't like it; I like it, and I'm the Instructor.

I don't think books are over priced. A lot cheaper than a survey and last about as long. 😉

I'll tell you what is overpriced, taking the family to a descent restaurant and it costing $130 for the six of us to eat.