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Are used textbooks the solution to the high cost of textbooks?
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| Yes | 74% | 316 votes | Total: 429 votes | |
| No | 26% | 113 votes |
Yes
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Created on: July 17, 2010
Used textbooks are the solution to the high cost of textbooks. One of the most negative aspects associated
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by Kelly Henry
Created on: December 30, 2009
Let’s take this further and say that sites like Amazon.com and Half.com by Ebay are the solution
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Created on: July 27, 2009 Last Updated: July 28, 2009
It was not that long along that I had to buy college textbooks. Every semester brought with it a new
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Created on: March 01, 2008 Last Updated: February 09, 2010
I'm not sure what goes into the cost of a textbook but I do know that academic literature has always
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Created on: August 14, 2009
Nothing was more infuriating than to have to pay for a new textbook when the new edition had changes
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Created on: September 24, 2008 Last Updated: October 10, 2008
Remember how books were distributed in grammar school? Each new school season brought out the textbooks
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by Tom Parsons
Created on: March 25, 2008
For ten school years prior to my retirement, I taught English grammar, literature and composition classes
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No
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by B. B. James
Created on: October 25, 2009
The premise of the question about the high cost of text books assumes that textbook costs are too high.
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Created on: September 27, 2010
Most people will agree that the cost of college textbooks is extremely high relative to other types
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by Joan Huston
Created on: August 26, 2009
The availability of used textbooks is not a solution to the exorbitant cost of textbooks; it is merely
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Created on: May 15, 2008
Buying used textbooks can sometimes save students a bit of money. But one of the problems with this
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Created on: June 15, 2010
For many students, buying a second-hand textbook makes perfect sense. You can save money and keep up
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by Elton Gahr
Created on: April 02, 2009
From kindergarten through the highest level of college people will use dozens if not hundreds of text
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by LB
Created on: March 01, 2008
The solution is lowering the cost of textbooks. Used textbooks aren't that much cheaper. I took an Anatomy
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Created on: May 15, 2008
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