The Price Of Books

[Tikibonbon]

that's why my favorite bookstore is half price books, name says it all

[evilbagpuss]

A scandal :angry: particularly with programming books. When you consider that the 'classic' programming books are bought by millions of students all over the world every year... theres no excuse for the £40-£50 price tag.

[botts]

try living in australia where a "cheap" new release paperback is over $18.00
:blink:

botts

[Golden Guitarist]

yes there way to expensive espically where I live <_<

[Guillaume]

They&#39;re really expensive here too ( France ) due to heavy taxes... That&#39;s why I&#39;m damaging my already poor eyesight, reading stuff I download on Kazaa&#33; :lol:

[Curley]

Originally posted by Gurahl@16 June 2003 - 12:17
They&#39;re really expensive here too ( France ) due to heavy taxes... That&#39;s why I&#39;m damaging my already poor eyesight, reading stuff I download on Kazaa&#33; :lol:
Exactly, you&#39;d think they&#39;d realise that people will not pay the prices and are finding other means of reading them.

[Guillaume]

Well, if you did something illegal, they wouldn&#39;t try to understand... Just sue you and send you to jail or whatever...
They are the Government, they can&#39;t be wrong, can they? ;)

[Tyke]

My books tend to be older paperbacks from the charity shops

....although as a stereotypically tight yorkshireman, I do think 25 pence is extortionate&#33; :D

[loz]

Do they not have libraries anymore?

[Guillaume]

Yes, libraries still exist but I don&#39;t like to go there ( too much people, too much noise...), books are in an horrible state ( missing pages, someone wrote in it...) or somebody has just borrowed the book I wanted... Plus I like to have my own books&#33;

[Curley]

Originally posted by Gurahl@16 June 2003 - 15:08
somebody has just borrowed the book I wanted...
Sorry..... i&#39;ll return it in 3 weeks :D

Seriously, I know what you mean. You don&#39;t know how many germs you&#39;ll find on public library books :unsure:

Yuck :x

[Ynhockey]

Well, in Israel there are 2 kinds of bookstores: Russian-only ones or Israeli ones with several languages. Russian-only stores have very cheap prices, but only Russian books (an average price for a hardback would be ~&#036;8 US). Israeli stores have outrageous prices but if you wanna buy a non-Russian book, you have no choice. I usually buy &#39;cans&#39; of books second-hand (you can get really great deals), and new releases from the store... no choice :(

[Tikibonbon]

8&#036; for a hardback? new? sweet&#33; they average 30&#036; here&#33;

[imported_QuietSilence!]

cost about &#036;6.00 for a paper back book here now and its a little high but still well worth it i still buy 2-3 books a month or so even with the i net to get most of them from

hell u cant print a book at home for less then &#036;6.00 any way
u can do it with a lazor printer for 2-3 bucks maybe but not on a color inkjet ull spend &#036;20.00 to print it on a inkjet just on the black ink cartrage and if u dont have a black ink cartrage u have to mix colors to get black and a color cartrage cost even more

all in all a book for &#036;6.00 is a good deal :)

[squishyboboball]

Depends on the book as to whether I think it&#39;s too pricey. If its a new book, or fairly new, then I have no problems paying about &#036;7 new, &#036;4 used for it. If this is a "classic" book we&#39;re talking about here, &#036;7 is waaay too much, and a lot of used bookstores want that because they can milk the schoolkids for it. I mean c&#39;mon, "Brave New World" may be required reading, but sheesh, poor kids have to snag a copy too.

Don&#39;t ever buy hardcovers new, buy them when they get marked down to &#036;6 on the "Buy it please&#33;" table.

[HeavyMetalParkingLot]

garage sales are hella good

[Styx]

I remember that i once went to this book sale- you know the sort - cut price, closing down sale, 50% and above off, these goods must be gotten rid of, ectera, ectera

I saw this software programing book, which was for some unspeakably ancient program. I picked it up and turned it over. to get alook at the price tag. it was &#036;37.50. now if that is not expensive- remember it&#39;s less than half price- i don&#39;t know what is.

[Skweeky]

It all depends on the book. It varies between 10 euro for a book to 50 euro....I think it&#39;s too expensive. I&#39;m only a student and I can&#39;t afford buying all the books I&#39;d like to read....BUT, the government is working on a fix price for books, so that would be something.
For now, I go to the library to get the books I like. The library at my university is pretty up to date, and it&#39;s all free :)

[Bookworm]

I don&#39;t bother to buy books at retail stores anymore. If you&#39;re willing to be patient and sacrifice immediate gratification needs, then you don&#39;t have to spend the money. 3 months after a hardback is released I can usually find it at an auction site (ebay, yahoo) or half.com for &#036;2.00-3.00 (plus &#036;3.00 shipping, of course). That beats the heck out of paying &#036;27.00 (+ tax) retail.

[Bookworm]

There are always plenty of people who don&#39;t mind spending &#036;27.00 for the book and then selling it to me for &#036;3.00. Why should I complain? Sure, they&#39;re used, but after only one reading they have little or no wear. When it&#39;s so cheap, it isn&#39;t worth the frustration of trying to borrow one of the beat-up germi-filled books from the library.

[Everose]

Just this morning I found four large boxes of books at a garage sale. The owner told me she would sell me a box of books for &#036;1.00. I came away with about 35 books, some of which are so new, the binder isn&#39;t even creased. Sheer Bliss&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;