Tips for Saving Money on Textbooks
Thursday, July 17th, 2008I was once a poor student like yourself. To save up enough cash for Ramen noodles, a Netflix subscription and tickets to my favorite music venues, I had to get pretty creative with my textbook expenses. What I learned is that there are plenty of resources beyond your campus bookstore to help you obtain the [...]
Textbooks, or, the Battle of Students vs Publishers - Part II
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Apologies in advance for belaboring the point in regards to my previous post on the broken textbook industry, but another interesting article on custom textbook publishing appeared this morning in the Wall Street Journal.
The article is mostly self-explanatory, so I won’t go into a lengthy discussion, but I would like to ask the reader to [...]
Declining economy = increasing readership?
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008According to a brief article in the Chicago Post-Tribune, libraries in Lake County and Porter County Illinois are seeing a surge in circulations and a rise in patronage, owing, in part to the current economy. Its terrific to hear news such as this, since libraries have been arguably one of the most underappreciated [...]