[irateswami]

I had a lot of qualms with my CS education, the professors in particular, but I have to hand it to them they always either tried to have the book and material online for free, or would use the international edition of whatever textbook we needed. Textbooks, and higher education in general, are a complete ripoff for 90% of people doing it.

[ldjb]

Nothing worse than courses that require a textbook written by the lecturer decades ago and is now out-of-print, with only one copy in the library that all the students have to fight over.

[harry8]

Yeah there is. Courses that require you to purchase the lecturer's terrible quality printed and photocopied(!) Unpublished "Lecture notes"

At least a garbage textbook damages their reputation in their field.

[irateswami]

I had a garbage math professor in college who did this, total bullshit.