David Kreiner wrote:
I have mixed feelings about it for reasons already mentioned by others,
but students do like it. Another factor to consider, depending on who is
running the rental program, is what it means about financial pressure to
keep the current textbook. Our bookstore prefers for us not to change
textbooks until they have at least broken even on the purchase price of
the books. Usually that is about three years. So, if you adopt a
textbook, and then find it is not satisfactory after the first semester
or year, the bookstore is not happy if you want to change it.
We have the same time rule here at ASU but they are pretty
flexible if you hit a stinker. There is not much churning
because textbooks don't change much from edition to edition at
the freshman/sophomore level. The graphics change from edition
to edition but the content is pretty constant.
This is not to say that there are not clear differences among
textbooks. Instead, I mean that a textbook author has a general
idea of what is important in the field to the author and those
ideas don't undergo strong changes over the life of an edition, a
couple of years.
Ken
Dave
David Kreiner
Professor of Psychology
University of Central Missouri
Lovinger 1111
Warrensburg MO 64093
[email protected]
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Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [email protected]
Professor
Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
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