With my luck, the opposite would happen.

You done REAL good!

you may not know.

Publishers provide these very expensive books free to teachers and professors in the hope that they will adopt the book for a class, generating sales from students. Ethically, you are supposed to return the book (many provide a free shipping label) or simply keep it for your own use if you don’t adopt it. Book “buyers” make the rounds to faculty offices from time to time and offer to pay faculty for these review copies, which when re-sold, undercut the publisher’s and the author’s income. It is considered unethical to sell to these book “buyers” for that reason and most faculty I know do not do it.

"ethically," according to some... I'm not supposed to resell Cinderella DVDs and Stephen King novels because, technically, it undercuts the publisher’s and the author’s income.

In terms of texbooks, they're usually way overpriced for students and then the buy-back prices are a joke.

Don't worry - you weren't a debbie downer.

Faculty get these books for free.

If I buy Cinderella, etc. at a yard sale for $.50 People resell items all the time that they don't originally pay for, or originally pay very little for. That's kinda the point of this forum

Faculty get these books for free.

And they then own them.

I would say it's odd to see finger wagging in an arbitrage forum, but this IS DU