blood-sucking business

only two textbooks for 214.00 $CDN !!?
and i have to buy two more books and CDs for my other courses!!!
and the irony is i'm broke these days! :D
our school's bookstore has monipolized the buying/selling of books, including even the used ones!
and, it's quite obvious that some of these "fair" faculty members have sort of an agreement with some of these publishers.
you know why?! they simply set the newest edition of the book for the semester's reading, while there is not much of a big diff. b/w this edition and the latest one which was out for reading only a semster ago!
then the poor students will have to spend hours and hours to find the differences and photocopy the new materisals/pages in the new edition; and this is usually impossible, becoz the school work load is heavier than letting you waste your time like this.
plus, the students who wanted to sell their used books for a reasonable price, won't find any buyers!
Abebooks turned me down today :(
i checked them on amazon, but they were very pricey!
i hope i can find a reliable supplier with good offers on ebay!

it's a good experience being broke (this is almost the 3rd time in my life!) but not when your blood is sucked by publishers and faculties like this!!
maybe that's why now i am enjoying so much listening to  black-eyed peas' Anxiety (with Papa Roach) .