>Professor requires you to buy the textbook that they wrote

becausemerica

>>9062753
kek because they're egotistical faggots, that cunt was my least favourite lecturer.

>>9062753
In all seriousness, I don't see this happen often, and when it does, it's usually because it's actually a good book

The few times I've had this happen the book was either dirt cheap or already in national print with a ton of circulation (100000+)

>buying textbooks
lol
we have the internet for a reason

>>9062753
an old cpe professor of mine made us use his textbook for a class but he was a hippy who hated the schools governance and made his book into a pdf available for all students to use. During the syllabus introduction at the beginning of every semester a majority of my engineering professors would "show" us links to download the required textbooks and would pretend they did'nt know what those links were.

>tfw have never purchased a textbook in my life

>>9063310
This. I save around 1000 dollars by just pirating my textbooks

>>9062753
Sit down and shut up that's the American college way

Sometimes it is better because the course lectures are better integrated with the book. Actually if you can get over the shady for profit aspect of it every professor should write a book and use it for the course they teach and custom tailor it both ways, instead of using a one size fits all book and barely using 50% of the material.

>>9063319
now that is how it should be done if the professor really care about his material.
>majority of my engineering professors would "show" us links to download the required textbooks
same here, especially in upper level courses where the professors were way more concerned with us learning the material/understanding it than grades. Good teachers want students to be able to learn, not be financially limited

I had a professor do this.

He had a slightly nonstandard way of organizing the subject which he argued was pedagogically superior. And after taking his class I have to agree.

>>9063319
what school?

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>>9062753
>they force you to buy the latest edition of ____ book and you can't even use the previous books for the class
>you can't buy used books because none exist and you can't sell your books after the class because a "new edition" will be issued
>the book costs over $300

Fuck, tuition farms.