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Old 01-06-2010 at 09:34 PM   #1
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I am so mothershitting tired of having to buy books or effing COURSEWARE, no less (that we could WRITE OUT BY HAND), when they don't even friggin bother to proofread this shit before making us buy it.

I don't know about you, but seeing dozens of typos in books that cost 100-200 dollars PISSES ME OFF.

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Old 01-06-2010 at 09:49 PM   #2
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I am so mothershitting tired of having to buy books or effing COURSEWARE, no less (that we could WRITE OUT BY HAND), when they don't even friggin bother to proofread this shit before making us buy it.

I don't know about you, but seeing dozens of typos in books that cost 100-200 dollars PISSES ME OFF.

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Couldn't agree more. Especially the whole course ware thing. It doesn't cost $5 bucks to photocopy it.. and we pay $50 for it.. The university wouldn't suffer too much if they made it cheaper DX
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Old 01-06-2010 at 09:53 PM   #3
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Part of the cost for custom course ware is the liscencing fees for the copyrighted content in them. I don't like paying for them either but the articles aren't free, they have to pay for their use so its not just the photocopying price that makes up the cost of CCW.
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Old 01-06-2010 at 09:55 PM   #4
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Um I'm pretty sure a good chunk of the money is copyright fees. It's especially worse if the CCW is a compilation of many different publications.

However, I still agree that they are pretty overpriced.

EDIT: Oops posted late. Sorry...I'm just saying pretty much the same thing as the above poster -_-.
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Couldn't agree more. Especially the whole course ware thing. It doesn't cost $5 bucks to photocopy it.. and we pay $50 for it.. The university wouldn't suffer too much if they made it cheaper DX
Don't you get the satisfaction of spending more? It helps stimulate the economy!
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Don't you get the satisfaction of spending more? It helps stimulate the economy!
Maybe it's like that for you Commie, but I'm a sci-co, I don't care about stimulating the economy
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Couldn't agree more. Especially the whole course ware thing. It doesn't cost $5 bucks to photocopy it.. and we pay $50 for it.. The university wouldn't suffer too much if they made it cheaper DX
$50? Last term I paid $107 for courseware- and the prof isn't even at Mac anymore, so it's not like someone's ever going to need it.

But no matter what you pay, it's WAY too expensive!

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Maybe it's like that for you Commie, but I'm a sci-co, I don't care about stimulating the economy
Well if you don't care about stimulating the economy, you'll be a Sci-Co without a job once you graduate, and even if you get a job, you'll probably be earning less than you would be if the economy was in better shape. Those are just some brief impacts. I don't want to get into more because this is not what this thread is about!

Down with course wares! :p
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The cost is the only thing people got out of the rant?

It's the ****ing disgusting amount of mistakes in these overpriced pieces of shit I'm pissed about.

AKA OUR STATS BOOKS FIRST TERM OMGGGGGG MADE ME RAGE SO HARD LOL.
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Couldn't agree more. Especially the whole course ware thing. It doesn't cost $5 bucks to photocopy it.. and we pay $50 for it.. The university wouldn't suffer too much if they made it cheaper DX
Ahh gotta love that Psych 1XX3 course ware...NOT XD

and a university is pretty much a business...

$45 x 2500 students (i think there was like 3200 in 1X03 so this is just an estimate, and no im not saying 700 ppl failed :p)

so that's over $100,000 to the university just for that one course they would lose if they sold it for $5 (oh and the taxes...gotta love taxes...retaxes? LOL)
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The cost is the only thing people got out of the rant?

It's the ****ing disgusting amount of mistakes in these overpriced pieces of shit I'm pissed about.

AKA OUR STATS BOOKS FIRST TERM OMGGGGGG MADE ME RAGE SO HARD LOL.
Is this not an issue with your profs then?
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The thing that bugs me more than course-ware is that they explain away the book price hike by saying the extra money goes to fund the scholarships that the book store provides, plus employee benefits.

They try to make it sound like they are a non-profit business and really they are on the students side. They are there to help refuel the money bin the school hemorrhages cash from for stupid reasons.

I would think every student paying 15% less for books would be better than a few students getting a scholarship they dont need while other students in need get nothing. If I ever actually got a scholarship or bursary I could stop hooking for cheeseburgers. But I cant get amazing marks because I have to spend my studying time working the streets.


The school should make a big online collection of stuff they write themselves and get rid of the textbooks all together. What an amazing selling point for a school, take the textbook money and buy a laptop.
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The cost is the only thing people got out of the rant?

It's the ****ing disgusting amount of mistakes in these overpriced pieces of shit I'm pissed about.

AKA OUR STATS BOOKS FIRST TERM OMGGGGGG MADE ME RAGE SO HARD LOL.
The biggest thing is the usefulness of these damned things. Like seriously some of them are pointless and expensive. But let me tell you the Chem 1A03 and 1AA3 lab manuals cost $5, they are small, useful and to the point. Love u chem...I mean Hatala...i mean...oh god XD
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I'm pretty sure scholarships are given primarily based on need, Rossclot.
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Old 01-06-2010 at 10:17 PM   #15
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Is this not an issue with your profs then?
Why would I possibly know this. I have no idea how this junk works.
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