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chicken
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Does anyone know of a company that will print and bind books, with no questions asked on the content they are printing?

I need to print a book but refuse to pay $250 for a < 500 page textbook.
Jan 7 2014 12:45PM
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SFB
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the library? i dunno you could just print out a few pages at a time over the course of a few days?
Jan 7 2014 12:54PM
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JAHpow
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Three hole punch them and put it in a binder
Jan 7 2014 1:53PM
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Aidan-G
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You trying to print out your memoir? "Cocksucker: My Life as a Bitch" by chicken
Jan 7 2014 1:55PM
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corona
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yea this for sure.
Jan 7 2014 1:58PM
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CaptainObvious.
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You could use some cowhide and the blood from slaughtering it to bind them.
Jan 7 2014 2:02PM
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MilaKunis
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You're best bet is definently hole punch and a binder. And if you found a place to do it you probably would only save like 50 bucks.
Jan 7 2014 2:11PM
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Tinga
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250 seems like a reasonable price for what you're asking. just once I assume?
Jan 7 2014 2:12PM
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MilaKunis
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He's illegally downloading it instead of buying a 250 book. Now that I think about it ink costs plus bonding costs would be much more expensive then the book. You decide chicken.
Jan 7 2014 2:13PM
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chicken
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$50 is still a decent amount of money. Plus it would still be a fuck-you to the publisher. One of the authors is dead, the other is retired. The new edition is like the same fucking book. All of this is normal for textbooks. But the pricetag is $100 more than other textbooks of this size and popularity. I have bought over 30 textbooks for my classes. At this price that would be like 7 grand in textbooks.
Jan 7 2014 2:24PM
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MilaKunis
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Does your school offer free printing?
Jan 7 2014 2:27PM
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Deezy
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Just go to a local photo/print shop. usually the small ones dont really care.

Jan 7 2014 2:28PM
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chicken
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nope. I have a laser printer and could print it out for like $40 myself probably. I just hate three ring binder books. They always fall apart on me.
Jan 7 2014 2:31PM
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Tinga
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I think it's funny when people think that the size of the book has anything to do with the price tag. You are paying for the colossal amount of work it took to write the book, find all the research, get permission for all names and companies in the book and finally all the editing it took to make sure there were as few errors as there are.
Jan 7 2014 2:45PM
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chicken
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that is complete bullshit. I have bought very good textbooks for a lot less when they don't come from one of the big publishers. The publishing companies rip us off by doing things like making a new edition with extremely minor changes, making people buy "codes" to access their homework, etc.

This book was written over 30 years ago by a guy who is no longer alive. It's on the ninth edition now. Most of the Math and Physics at the undergraduate level does not change much or at all in 30 years. There is absolutely no reason to by publishing a new edition of the book every 3-4 years.

The textbook for another class of mine was $35. If they can sell it for that cheap, then there is no reason that this one should be sold for $200 more. The publishers will sell the book for as high as the market can handle. If you go to india, the same book will sell for like $60. It has absolutely nothing to do with the "amount of work it took to write the book".

I just stole a physical copy of the book though. So I don't have to print this one anymore!
Jan 7 2014 4:05PM
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THUNT836
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hey OP try this
Jan 7 2014 7:15PM
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iFlip
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Richard, this illegal activity of yours may very well have repercussions.
Jan 7 2014 7:17PM
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chicken
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Hah.

Dear Pearson Ed:

Jan 7 2014 8:07PM
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chicken.
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I have a source for free printing credits at your uni
Real shady stuff but we all know it will do a lot less harm then all your vegan protests and peta activitys!
Jan 7 2014 9:05PM
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chicken
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fuck peta.

and vegans don't do harm. we reduce it.
Jan 7 2014 9:12PM
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Aidan-G
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Jan 7 2014 9:14PM
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Laurent.
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Jan 8 2014 12:22AM
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Heart
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First off, you're a piece of shit for stealing a physical copy of the book. Pirating is a victimless crime - stealing isn't.

But you're right about the price gouging and new-edition thing. Big publishers have a near monopoly on the textbook market so they gouge customers with ridiculous prices and new editions that don't improve on the previous edition in any way. As an engineering student I see it all the time. I have to buy $200+ books with no substitutes. I pirate whenever possible but still... Some things aren't available online so I have to bite the bullet and take a big publisher dick in my ass.
Jan 8 2014 1:18PM
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MilaKunis
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Haha pirating is not a victimless crime. Now instead of the book company making money Barnes and nobles loses money. There is a victim in both.
Jan 8 2014 1:31PM
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Heart
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I'm not padding the pockets of a company that manhandles their customers. I don't buy my books from brick and mortar stores either so that's a moot point. You sound like one of those big Hollywood media companies who thinks a pirated copy of something equals a lost sale - it doesn't.
Jan 8 2014 1:36PM
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