First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry.

Re:First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry. by yummyfajitas on Monday July 28, 2008 @09:31AM (#259041)

The publisher indeed stops publishing the old version. It would be cheaper for the students that can find an old copy, who knows if they will all be able to do so?

>So the department assigns a book, why do they have to assign it?

Do you want to buy a new book for calc 2 if you take it with somebody besides me? Or buy a new book if you switch sections?

Standardization makes sense, especially at the intro level. I'd prefer if they standardized on cheap calc books, but as I said, making that occur involves academic politics. Perhaps one day, when I've got clout...

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Re:First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry. by silencio on Monday July 28, 2008 @04:06PM (#259555)

Hmm, okay, now I'm hating them more and more.

>Do you want to buy a new book for calc 2 if you take it with somebody besides me? Or buy a new book if you switch sections?

Well, my idea was to standardize on cheaper books, not that it should be a free-for-all (for your reason precisely). It does involve academic politics and you'd run into the problem with having a lack of books in some cases. This sucks on all sides.

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