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cbrunsdonza
Price of books 2009
December 04, 2008 07:28PM
I am so shocked to see how expensive the text books are for next year:

http://www.kalahari.net/books/Foundations-of-Computer-Science/632/31935942.aspx

COS113 Foundations of Computer Science

This year Feb 2008 R450
Now Dec R950

* Somebody has contacted me about buying mine and I just wanted to make a fare offer. But this is ridiculous !!! And Kalahari are cheapest (Van Schalkwyk) with this one ....

EDIT:
Here's another one:

Fundamentals of Business Information Systems
Feb I paid R400?
Its now R875

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stevenv
Re: Price of books 2009
December 04, 2008 09:35PM
Have you checked the exchange rate lately? smile
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cbrunsdonza
Re: Price of books 2009
December 04, 2008 10:29PM
Yes, I'm aware that has an effect, but it seems the distributors are taking advantage of this (and the fact that Amazon do not deliver to ZA).

The rand is only 50% weaker and not 150% since February.

I've just looked up my books for next year and have even changed my subject choice as I do not have R6K lying around for books. I'm doing my Certificate in Datametrics and I see I'm going to k@k off when I do my BSc...

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MotaBoy
Re: Price of books 2009
December 04, 2008 10:54PM
Amazon.co.uk still delivers to SA. You can also get 2nd hand books that way at (sometimes) a good price.
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Reanie
Re: Price of books 2009
December 04, 2008 11:09PM
You can always try the eBooks route?? (But you didn't get that recommendation from me!) eye rolling smiley
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nlombard
Re: Price of books 2009
December 05, 2008 09:34AM
I've done the e-book route for 1 subject and it worked ok. I didn't print out everything - just important stuff. You can buy second-hand books from alibris.com - they deliver in SA and even with delivery costs it's still a lot cheaper.
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stevenv
Re: Price of books 2009
December 05, 2008 10:56AM
You're right, I definitely think that distributors are taking advantage of an economic situation which benefits them in every way and has no positive effect on the consumers. I'm just thankful to be entering my last year, having only three subjects left and only needing to buy at most two books. I do have a whole pile of books at home that I'm planning on selling this year, I've posted a list here.
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marisamocke
Re: Price of books 2009
December 05, 2008 11:03AM
I'm just waiting for my registration to go through (after we receive our final marks) that I can get the books sorted ASAP. hmmmm I can see the $$'s flowing out of my pocket again...
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Anonymous User
Re: Price of books 2009
December 05, 2008 11:04AM
If anyone needs software for cos261 (formal logic 2), I have for LINUX only (please don't bug me for the windows version - I DON'T have it). There was a bug in getting the updated software - you needed registered software to access the updates, but the legal software that you bought wasn't updated so it wasn't possible to register to get the updates. ugh.

So if you need the software (LINUX only), make a thread.
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jxharding
Re: Price of books 2009
December 05, 2008 12:13PM
my books are also a fortune
INF418P DATABASES: ADVANCED CONCEPTS R507.75
Rob, P. & Coronel, C., Crockett, K. 2008. Database systems design,
implementation and management. Cengage ISBN: 978-1-84480-732-1 (International edition).


INF420H HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION R1068.95
Lazar, J (ed). 2007. Universal usability: designing computer interfaces for diverse
users. John Wiley & Sons.


INF431L INFORMATION SECURITY R595.95
Pfleeger, CP & Pfleeger, SL. 2007. Security in computing. 4th edition. Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
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nlombard
Re: Price of books 2009
December 05, 2008 12:47PM
@jxharding - I have the INF418 (DATABASES - Rob&Coronel) book for you if you are interested in a second hand one.
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Shauntir
Re: Price of books 2009
December 05, 2008 02:57PM
Those are some really ridiculous prices!
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cbrunsdonza
Re: Price of books 2009
December 05, 2008 03:14PM
The books for:

COS214 is R1800,
COS211 - R 1030
COS221 - R 1331

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Kilhra
Re: Price of books 2009
December 05, 2008 03:17PM
@jxharding

I know two guys with the inf431 book, if you want I can ask them to contact you
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Anonymous User
Re: Price of books 2009
December 05, 2008 03:22PM
are you guys buying hard cover books???
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cameltrax
Re: Price of books 2009
December 06, 2008 04:45PM
What the sadest of all are if you've bought your books like a good student and it ends up they quote the whole book in the studyguide, or worse, there are minimal use in even having the book - like with ergonomics - bought a 700 p very good textbook, but the course only covered 5 of the 12 chapters. The I choose ebooks!
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cbrunsdonza
Re: Price of books 2009
December 07, 2008 09:07AM
As an ebook hoarder, I have not found any of my prescribe books yet. I even thought of buying them legit from the publisher but they do not have them - I guess this is to stop distribution.

Whatever: Its KAK 'n BETAAL

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jxharding
Re: Price of books 2009
December 07, 2008 10:58AM
hi, i'll appreciate contact with anyone that can sell me the books please!!
thanks!
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jxharding
Re: Price of books 2009
December 07, 2008 03:20PM
holy shit
those COS2 book prices are crazy!!!!!!

one should scan them to PDF and distribute to other students who can't afford it.
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Liezl-Mia
Re: Price of books 2009
December 07, 2008 08:02PM
I always use www.abebooks.com - they have the lowest prices and have any book you can imagine
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Anonymous User
Re: Price of books 2009
December 08, 2008 08:26AM
--Rob, P. & Coronel, C., Crockett, K. 2008. Database systems design,
implementation and management

wasnt that the same book as the 3rd year INF databases subjet??
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jneethling
Re: Price of books 2009
December 08, 2008 08:35AM
Rule number 1, when buying textbooks from kalahari, always check the prices in the shops. Even though Kalahari gets their books from van scaiks (cannot remember how to spell it), the prices are hecticly different. I saved more than R1000 by getting in the car and driving to the shop. Some books were more than double the price!

This year I didn't even bother with Kalahari and I'll have all my books by the end of the week!

Cobus Neethling
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Anonymous User
Re: Price of books 2009
December 08, 2008 08:37AM
Try have some friends buy from Armstrong Books in jhb and Protea bookshop in pretoria. Their prices are 25% of what you quoted
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rklopper
Re: Price of books 2009
December 08, 2008 09:48AM
and you even get someone else's notes for free smiling smiley
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Anonymous User
Re: Price of books 2009
December 08, 2008 10:20AM
nope, the books are brand new
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Anonymous User
Re: Price of books 2009
December 08, 2008 11:22AM
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Reanie
(But you didn't get that recommendation from me!)
LOL grinning smiley

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Rick
Their prices are 25% of what you quoted
Agreed. I buy all my textbooks from Armstrongs in Linden - JHB.
I make a printout of the Kalahari prices and show the list to the
staff at Armstrong. They always offer me a far better price (often
at a fraction of Kalahari's prices).

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Liezl-Mia
I always use www.abebooks.com - they have the lowest
prices and have any book you can imagine
Thanks for the link, will check it out. I also need
some of the Honours textbooks that jxharding mentioned.
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jxharding
Re: Price of books 2009
December 08, 2008 11:35AM
i got the CHM file for the security module
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cbrunsdonza
Re: Price of books 2009
December 08, 2008 01:03PM
I found that my books I wanted this year (2008) where cheaper at Khalahari.net , but I agree on to first shop around as at these prices it will make a difference.

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malcolm
Re: Price of books 2009
December 08, 2008 04:57PM
I always get a quote from 4 shops.
I have found armstrongs to usually be the most expensive on all but a few textbooks without fail.
I always find the shop in hatfield to be the cheapest(can't remember its name it is near van schaiks) for most books without fail. By doing this I find I usually save a couple of thousand rands on what I would have paid if I just went straight to the first shop and bought, and it does not take me much extra time.

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jneethling
Re: Price of books 2009
December 11, 2008 07:48AM
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I always find the shop in hatfield to be the cheapest(can't remember its name it is near van schaiks)
That would be Protea.

I actually found that 2 out of 5 books were cheaper at Protea vs Van Schaiks. I didn't bother with Juta or Kalahari.

Cobus Neethling
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