
Most, if not all, publishers have the option to purchase a separate access code.

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But really, how many of us actually crack open the book for that purpose when we don’t have to? If that’s the case, then it’s best to buy the code alone. Sometimes, as many students complain about, professors will say that they require a textbook for their class, but only for students to reference and study from. To save a few extra dollars, the best thing to do is ask the professor ahead of time about whether you need either the code or the book. For the publishers, this frugality means that they don’t get as much profit as they would like. Because the overwhelming majority of college students have very little money to spend, they use strategies to save any extra dollar they can on overpriced textbooks, such as sharing, renting, buying used and opting out of buying one at all. The reason why publishers offer the online content that costs anywhere from $60-$150 to buy is because they’re basically trying to outsmart the students. In my research, I found information about the sneaky reason why access codes exist, but very little on why professors choose to make students buy them. If this exists for free, then why do I need to pay to get access to similar content? Through it, I can also get links and pdfs of readings, post in discussion boards, communicate with my professors and check my grades. I don’t know how other schools are, but mine has a platform called D2L (Desire to Learn) where professors can upload assignments and students can turn them in. Then, once the semester is over, the book is pretty much useless because the code is already used and the student is basically stuck with it. If you don’t want to buy a brand-new book, then there’s the option of getting a used one and purchasing the code separately, but it’s often much cheaper just to get the new book.

If a professor asks students to get a textbook with an access code, the book usually can’t be rented or purchased used at a lower price because the codes that come with them can only be used once and last for about six months. The codes have a corresponding physical textbook that must be purchased new. However, the internet’s takeover of every aspect of our lives adds another expense for college students: access codes.įor those who are lucky enough to have not been required to buy one, an access code is basically paying the price of a textbook just to do homework assignments online. If there’s one thing that can be mutually agreed upon by most college students, it would be that college is just plain expensive! Between the thousands of dollars just to sit in a classroom and the couple hundred bucks to but textbooks that you might only crack open once during the semester, it sometimes seems as if universities have a vacuum attached to the bank accounts of their students to suck out their funds as they wish.
