On A Claire Day by Carla Ventresca and Henry Beckett for May 29, 2018

Are you sure he has a science degree? If I remember right those were some of the most expensive textbooks.

I was just going to say the same thing…

Scientific textbooks at his level…. graduate school…. can cost upwards of $200 apiece.

And with universities requiring that professors constantly publish their work,

students find that old editions (ie used books) are incompatible with their coursework, and have to spring for new editions.

Then again…. the cartoonists may not know that.

I feel your pain, Claire. I just took a course for fun, and the text cost $120. And it was a used copy.

Only $95? That’s ain’t bad at all for schoolbooks… rolls eyes

In 1951, I played my first season with a nearby community band. We played a ten concert season with a rehearsal for each concert. We got $5.00 for each rehearsal and concert. The $100 paid for my textbooks for a full course load the next school year. Now we play six concerts with two rehearsals each for $175 total. It pays my gasoline from the adjacent county – in a Prius.

I remember a college text book I didn’t buy because it cost as much as a week’s worth of groceries. $25!! Amazing how much things can change in not quite 1/2 a century.

Textbooks are a ripoff. For many classes, there’s no need for new editions every year or two, especially the entry level classes.