Quote Originally Posted by Groundhog View Post
I'm a community college professor too and I even have a homework question about this (I teach economics and finance). I always try to use the old text even after the new edition comes out so that students can get used ones on
amazon or barnes&noble. But sometimes the school bookstore conspires (well, not the right word...maybe instists) to have us use the new costly edition because they don't want to stock the old one. However it's true that economics (or at least current events) have made an updated text necessary in the last two years - not once but twice. But $135 for a new one...come on!
How are the new books organized? If it's a matter of 1 or 2 new chapters, maybe you can get permission to reproduce the new chapters as part of a course reader and save your students the expense of buying the whole book.