*boggle*

[camwyn]

I made another Amazon sale today. I sold one of my textbooks to someone who already had a 'Dr.' in front of his name. Don't people with doctorates get paid enough to buy their books at the campus bookstore, or reimbursed by their companies as an expense of doing business?

*boggle*

I'm not arguing, though, that's $35 I didn't have before...

'scuse me. Gotta go make a doctor's appointment. My throat feels marginally better but I still sound like Miles Davis.

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[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

You only get free textbooks if you are either a professor at a college/university and the company in question wants you to use their book in a course, ie preview freebie, or you are a professor at a college/university and you are teaching a course using the textbook in question. If you consider buying textbooks using grant money to be free, then that is the only other way to get a free textbook.

[camwyn]

I had assumed it was a case of the guy being sent to school for something, in which case most companies seem to have a reimburse-the-student policy. At least, all the people (other than myself) in my classes who worked full-time were on reimburse-the-student deals from their orgs... oh well.

[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

And a doctorate does not guarantee money. In fact, a PhD won't even keep you warm in the winter. The paper burns too fast.