Comments on: Cost of books keeping Icelandic students home

By: densou

densou — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:02:34 +0000

you’re right, Alexander. I should have written “Eastern Europe (some countries after ’91)” instead.

Jim, are you serious ?! Iceland has its max VAT on books ???? Come on, neither us….

By: Anon Name

Anon Name — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:10:53 +0000

Blame book publishers who do minor edits to books in order to bump editions and discourage students from buying used books.

Also, the school system should be blamed too – it is very likely that they are in agreement with publishers and get their cut from that deal too.

You may want to check the pirate bay – maybe your book is already there available for free. After all, publishers deserve no respect. Why? See this article in New York Times called “First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry”.

By: Alexander E.

Alexander E. — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:49:14 +0000

densou said:

welcome to a pitiful Eastern Europe/Mediterranean-like situation

When I was a kid – we got our text books for free every year.
At university – same. Just went to library and got all you need.

But it was Soviet Union. Totalitarian education system, you know :-)

By: españa

españa — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:44:28 +0000

Stop to have kids or just have one. Wellcome to the really life!!!

By: fw

fw — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:27:01 +0000

Aggi said it all. WHY are we finishing off the b….opera house. Time to get priorities right. Education matters most.

By: Easy

Easy — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:43:44 +0000

Wellcome to reallity!!!!

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:51:11 +0000

Iceland should follow the UK and stop charging sales tax on books. Taxing knowledge is regressive.

By: Aggi

Aggi — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:43:06 +0000

This is sad , and nothing serious is being done… o yeah finishing the Opera house,

By: densou

densou — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:37:05 +0000

welcome to a pitiful Eastern Europe/Mediterranean-like situation ^^

Imo, it’s a trivial issues, there are plenty of ways to solve that. [this useless school system had to fight with it nearly everyday here]