EBay, Collectors, Flea Market & Antiques

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.