Got some of Erin’s 5th year books 2nd hand but went into shop with 100 euro to get last *3* books and they wanted €159.65!!! (3 books, yes)!
Am I out of touch?
And I’ve still to get parts of uniform and Finn’s things!
😯😭😭— Janette Revitup (@2RevItUp) August 14, 2019
Jaykers.
Three?
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would the publisher be Folens by any chance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Folens
Was zum Teufel!!!
I remember in the late 80s a small publisher came out with a new ag science book, and started selling books of former exam papers. It was set up by a teacher who wanted to help his students.
Previously, the papers could be got individually only and, I heard but cannot confirm, they had deliberate errors in case someone tried to reprint them (this was a known practice in the early days of publishing, map-making, etc). As I understand it, Folens went to try to suppress them, failed, and so started coming out with books of papers of their own. A case of trying to protect their investment at the expense of the student.
To be fair, I doubt they gave a toss about students. A bit like how a publican just cares that the best customers keeps drinking
And then they change the page numbers so you can’t pass the books on second hand .
it’s a dirty racket
I suspect quite a bit of lobbying from the book publishers to keep the sale of books going and not even providing a E-Book version of it to students – this would mean kids who have computers or tablets could leave the heavy books at school – they also now routinely “update” (a page here and there) the books every year so that even second hand is not viable for most. Bananaland.
There’s a school book grant scheme for low income families and many schools run school book loan scheme to alleviate the hardship.
https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/education/primary_and_post_primary_education/educational_supports/school_books_scheme.html
Someone above mentioned e-books. The latest research suggests children learn better from hard copy books than electronic screens. Hence the parent outrage against the school that is insisting all keeps get iPads at the parents’ expense.
Who is that someone? I wasn’t suggesting totally replacing hard book by Ebook but it would be at least an option for some. Funny I see that Folens and Gill are actually proposing Ebooks now but not the School books, more like additional support, look at the prices… https://www.gilleducation.ie/secondary-ebooks-junior-certificate
Sorry I meant, what research?