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Textbook Buying Tip

I met a Berkeley student who paid $17 (including shipping) for Statistics (4th edition = latest edition) by Friedman, Pisani and Purves at abebooks.com. She got an edition meant for India, but the text is the same. The current lowest price at abebooks is $37 (including shipping). Amazon charges $108 (including shipping). More Dave Lull points out it is even less ($25) elsewhere.

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2 Responses to “Textbook Buying Tip”

  1. Alex Chernavsky Says:
    August 31st, 2012 at 7:10 am

    See also this open-source textbook project:

    http://openstaxcollege.org/books

  2. Michael RB Says:
    September 4th, 2012 at 10:29 pm

    I played that game in grad school and literally handed in a combinatorics problem set for the next chapter. I had no idea that the India edition skipped a chapter.

    Caveat emptor