| Myth of sky rocketing textbook costs |
| 06/14/2007 |
State and federal legislatures are on the move attempting to lower the cost of college by attacking the price of textbooks. Jim Minatel has a different take on how to help students save on the total cost of college. He has a nice breakdown comparing the effects of inflation on college tuition compared to the effect of inflation on textbooks. He comes to this conclusion...
So yes, while both college and textbook costs are rising faster than inflation, and certainly faster than my wages or those of anyone I know, if you want to do something real about the money being stolen from you to pay for the cost of entry for your kids into the "real world," attack the elephant in the room that costing you $4000-$15,000 a year over what "the real world" says it should. The few hundred a year you might save if textbook costs were held down to inflation rates are chump change in this equation, or beer money for our beloved, departed Tommy's Silver Dollar Saloon.
The whole post here "The Myths of Sky rocketing Textbook Costs" |
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| | Previous Entries | | | Oregon legislation aimed at lowering textbook costs |
| 06/14/2007 |
More on Oregon's bill
A bill that won final legislative approval Wednesday will require publishers to be clearer about prices and options for college textbooks, the cost of which can burden students and parents.
Senate Bill 365 repassed the Senate on a 17-11 vote and heads to the desk of Gov. Ted Kulongoski. It was requested by the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group and the Oregon Student Association. |
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| | | What do you hate about textbooks? |
| 06/12/2007 |
Steve Gimbel, from Philsopher's playground has been writing a textbook on "a philosophy of science". He is asking readers to help him answer the question..
So what is it about textbooks that you really hate and what examples can you think of that made a textbook successful? What should I avoid and what should I try to include?
Chime in or find out what people hate about textbooks
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| | | Site Update: Price Comparison XML API Available! |
| 06/11/2007 |
We've worked hard to find a way to make our results available to extend our service in ways we never thought of. So we are happy to announce the immediate availability of our Price Comparison XML API.
The results are the same results from our own site, in a very simple XML format. The REST interface accepts a developer key, and either a book's ISBN or EAN, and that's it! The output is easy as well, with both book information and price inofrmation returned.
We hope to see some innovative and inventive uses of our API in the coming weeks, we'll see how it goes.
To receive a developer key, simply contact us and describe your idea briefly to us.
To see more information and an example of the output, see here.
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| | | Site Updates: Bulk order search and ebook search |
| 06/08/2007 |
ebook Search: Focused search that only returns books available in an electronic format including, Audio,CD, DVD, PDF and other popular ebook formats.
Bulk Book Order Search: If you need multiple copies of the same book this search looks for booksellers who can fulfill orders of the same title in quantities of 2-25 . This is especially handy if you bulk order textbooks. By buying from one vendor you can save lots of money on shipping.
Both of these searches, like our whole site are ever evolving and improving. Please let us know any additions/improvements we can add to make your book finding life easier. Contact us |
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