I didn’t buy a single book in community college. Thank you private torrent sites!
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nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
My country has relaxed laws on piracy, so we had almost no books in our university, teachers just sent up pirated PDFs in a group chat
UndercoverNormie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
i stopped after the time when amazon came around, with books only and through google search i was able to get one book off. that was a little year before transfered toa 4 year, then i really was on the hunt at the time for torrented/free book downloads. yea those online access and professor exclusive books were annoying.
UndercoverNormie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, you were pretty boned back then. Bibliotik private tracker started around 2011 or so, but it was almost impossible to get into back then, and it remains that difficult today. I lost my account, so I’m screwed. That was far and away the BEST resource for that sort of thing.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Unfortunately a lot of the fucking publishers are getting aware of this fact and they’re doing one-time codes now
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Most of the subjects they teach, at a college level, have not changed in decades…
If a teacher wants to use the “latest” in Shakespearean literature - that’s 100% a choice…
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Of it’s definitely a choice, there’s probably a financing additional incentive to the college or even instructor to adapt these anti sharing policies
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Whatever amount they are getting from the publishers to do that is going to be less than the amount the publishers expect to get from the students because of it (plus all the expenses of building and maintaining the web portal).
The schools could just charge an avoiding corruption fee that is the same value as the kickback, tell the publishers to fuck off, and give the students a better experience that is also cheaper than the “recommended” one the publishers want to force them into to sell way overpriced books.