“The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker Pearson

Re:“The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook mak... by Causality1 on Sunday August 18, 2019 @09:30PM (#20734194)

Gotta have a new math textbook every year. Wouldn't wanna miss out on all the new math.

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Re:“The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook mak... by dev_dull on Sunday August 18, 2019 @10:36PM (#20734460)

“If you have an old version you’re good on all of the content, except the questions at the end will be different. So you’ll need a new book to do the homework.”

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Re:“The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook mak... by tsomctl on Sunday August 18, 2019 @11:42PM (#20734711)

Or go to the library and photocopy the questions. I had a math instructor literally tell us to buy the old edition and photocopy the questions from the library.

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Re:“The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook mak... by rasz on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:30AM (#20735945)

The usual trick is your math teacher was commissioned to write/update one chapter of said book, incentivizing him to push new versions every semester.

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