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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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