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minus-squareFlying SquidlinkEnglish5•9 months agoMy friend posted this on social media. This is an eBook textbook for one of his graduate school classes. In case you can’t read that clearly, the eBook version is $87.95. The paperback (not even hardcover textbook) version is $120.95. Fucking insane.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•9 months agoCan I take this opportunity to ask what the hell “adopting” a book means?
minus-squareBudgieManialinkfedilink3•9 months ago“family therapy” is what you are gonna need if you have to pay 100 bucks for a bunch of paper sheets that you are gonna use once in your life, fuck me
minus-squareBudgieManialinkfedilink3•9 months agooh shit I misread and thought that was physical whadawhat
My friend posted this on social media. This is an eBook textbook for one of his graduate school classes.
In case you can’t read that clearly, the eBook version is $87.95. The paperback (not even hardcover textbook) version is $120.95.
Fucking insane.
Can I take this opportunity to ask what the hell “adopting” a book means?
I have absolutely no idea.
“family therapy” is what you are gonna need if you have to pay 100 bucks for a bunch of paper sheets that you are gonna use once in your life, fuck me
The ebook price is the real crime.
oh shit
I misread and thought that was physical
whadawhat