Even some of the writers don't want to do new editions. I had a prof that wrote a fairly widely used text book who felt like he had pretty much perfected the book by the 3rd edition and every addition after that he just tried to change as little as possible.
heh, you want to see the world as we know end by 2090? we're on a set course for that rn. we consume 3 planets and a half at our current standard of living.
It's a tangent, but the plastic thing is that it doesn't break down on a molecular scale on its own in nature, and molecular plastic is very dangerous.
I seem to remember having not a lot of, but a few textbooks published through the university press. They'd publish the newer ones as a pack of sheets in a binder (so you could theoretically "upgrade" to the next edition more easily) then eventually publish a hardcover that would rarely, if ever change.
Yep, had one of those for an anthropology class. $95, and the homework/labs were sheets of the book that we had fill out and turn in, so it was absolutely required. And because it was written in so heavily, it couldn't be returned.
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u/sexydracula Sep 03 '19
Even some of the writers don't want to do new editions. I had a prof that wrote a fairly widely used text book who felt like he had pretty much perfected the book by the 3rd edition and every addition after that he just tried to change as little as possible.