text book prices...why? Options

[brooklyneast05]

i don't get why text books are so expensive. i just bought this art history book that is 116 dollars, but i don't understand WHY it costs so much. it's a decent sized book, but it's not huge. what i don't get is...say you go into a regular book store like barnes and noble and you buy a book with art history in it, why isn't it as expensive?

when you go into a book store, rarely do i see any books costing 116 dollars. so what makes text books of equal size cost more?


don't tell me how i can go buy them cheaper balbalbaabl, i'm not asking about buying them cheaper. i'm asking what makes text books like this cost so much more than just a regular book that's similar in size and stuff?

[Tsukuyomi-No-Mok...]

Thing i don't get about the whole thing is you pay soo much for books and you try and sell them back and you get like 15$ for it.
madd wack so what I usually do is i wait till the finals week and take all the books everyone else leaves behind and sell them all together.
but chea i don't get it the book isn't higher quality than any other book you can buy so why are they soo expensive.
I mean i understand that they are books for school but still i don't think the prices should be so high since you do need to study and read to learn why is it soo expensive if people want you to learn and suceed.