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Everything posted by FreshHalibut
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Braving the depths of Chinese internet and shady download sites to avoid paying for textbooks
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The textbook industry is really weird at the moment, in that a growing number of people are writing open source books and distributing them for free online (or using print on demand services and selling them at slightly more than the cost of printing), while the larger textbook companies are gouging prices at an extreme level even for them. Thus it's not uncommon to see two equally good books for the same course with one available for free, or costing at most $20 or so, while the other is $300. The price range of $40-$180 is very sparse, with everything above or below that.
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