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...]

I dunno bout that. If text book companies are doing all that shipping then why do i have to buy my books. yea there are alot of books just sitting there but we gotta pay for them if there's soo many why not jus give them to us.

See I went o Public School and that's whre we got our books for free. teachers jus handed them out and we used them took them home covered them and used them and then gave them back at the end of the year.

I also went to private school and there you had to buy your books.
but then again in private school you gotta pay for everything

College With the amount i pay just to be there which is 50,000 somewhere inthere should be covering my books.