Xref: utzoo sci.math:4992 sci.physics:5017 comp.edu:1482 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu!vkr From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,comp.edu Subject: Re: How to beat the high cost of text books! Message-ID: <1124@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> Date: 4 Dec 88 14:35:07 GMT References: <2219@cbnews.ATT.COM> <684@stech.UUCP> <17553@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <17738@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) Organization: Dept of Math, Ohio St U at Newark, Newark, OH 43055 Lines: 19 In article <17738@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> matloff@iris.ucdavis.edu (Norm Matloff) writes: >[...] It definitely does appear that publishers are conscious of the fact >that students must buy the **assigned** text for the course[...] Ultimately the blame must fall on the students (as somebody else pointed out). You see, in basic courses, I would rather ask the students to buy a problem book, and may be one (or more :-) books out of a short list. Unfortunaltey, students feel uncomfortable about this. In fact, a biologist collegue of mine was bemoaning the fact that students wnat to know which pages of the text were going to covered on a given day, rather than knowing the name of the topic alone. I often feel the same way. In fact, when I lecture, I give only the name of the topic. But student think that that is too little. If that the way they feel, they deserve to be gouged. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nath vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu