Archive for the ‘ Textbooks ’ Category

Free Money For Textbooks

Sometimes it’s hard to change your ways so as to avoid evilness. I love books (have I mentioned that before?) and am probably the last human on Earth who would buy a damn Kindle thingy and start reading my “books” on a screen. However (here comes the part where I clear my throat and mumble [ READ MORE ]

Detroit Public Schools: Photoessay

Soul-crushing, creepy, effed-up, and sobering warning are the better terms, but I’ll use the more poetic poignant and heart-rending to describe this photoessay by Sweet Juniper!, the husband-and-wife photog team who shot this series of amazing photographs of abandoned public school buildings in Detroit. The first series I found via dy/dan, a wholesome and education-oriented [ READ MORE ]

Flat World Knowledge

Armed with new technology, a new business model and the good karma that comes with using one’s powers for good instead of evil, Flat World Knowledge is hoping to begin the ending of the textbook-publishing racket. I’m on their side, and am hoping they succeed in crushing the money-sucking tyrants that are college textbook publishers. [ READ MORE ]

Custom: Cool For Sneakers, Not For Textbooks

This travesty was recently brought to my attention: vaguely ‘custom’ textbooks being published for specific courses and schools, thereby forcing students to but the books new and severely limiting the re-sale options. For a while there, textbook publishers had college students over the proverbial barrel. Textbooks are horrendously expensive, even the used ones. And to [ READ MORE ]

Textbook Rental Saves Money and Trees

I cannot believe humans didn’t come up with this until now: avoiding the tyranny of the textbook-publisher racket by renting textbooks. (Author’s note: It’s entirely possible this rental option was around a few years ago when I was in school, and I was just too snobby to even allow the idea to enter my consciousness.) [ READ MORE ]

Feeding the OCD Tendencies

My world is better when all pertinent information is collected and listed. Lifehack.org just posted The Ultimate Student Resource List, thereby improving the alignment of the universe. Don’t you feel lighter, more organized, supremely in control of yourself and everything around you? I really, really, very much do. Posted by Alexa Harrington[ READ MORE ]

Best College Textbook Sites

Alternatives to Your College Bookstore A recent BusinessWeek.com article about Chegg.com, a site that allows students to buy and sell used textbooks and other school-related goods and services, spurred discussion on Digg.com. End result, you can find vastly different prices on multiple textbook sites, it depends on what you’re looking for. Send us your tips, [ READ MORE ]