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Originally Posted by Adriaan12452
At this moment many scientific books cost over $150 for about 800-1200 pages, a paperback edition. With all due respect, anyone who doesn't find that excessively expensive is in my opinion out of his mind.
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in terms of textbook prices, i think most are just rip-offs. they keep coming out with new editions every year, and they're all the same content. they just switch the chapters around and update the examples, but that's all. our profs usually just tell us to stick with the old edition unless a significant amount of time has passed enough that the amount of new content becomes substantial.