Like most students, I hate having to go to the bookstore to buy books for the semester.

The reason why I hate buying books from the bookstore is because they try to make money off you every way they can.

The bookstore, or the evil empire as I like to call them, buys their books at wholesale price and then sells them to broke college students for close to 63 percent than what they bought them for. How do I know this? Check out the prices on Amazon.com.

I went to buy a consumer behavior book on line and that book cost me $35. At the bookstore they were charging my classmates $90. What I paid to Amazon is what my fellow students will get back if they get to sell their books back at the end of the semester.

If you do buy books from Amazon, you will need the ISBN number, located on the bar code.

The reason why I am telling you this is because to find it you will have to go to the book store and ask them for it but they will not give it to you. Imagine that.

It seems that at the end of the semester our professors decide to change to a new edition of their given class. Come on professors, leave those kids alone! Our professors could help us out a little and stay with the same edition at least one semester. If you’ve bought a new edition of a book, you can look at the previous edition and tell there is hardly any changes between the two except for a few new pictures.

The last problem with the evil empire is that when you do need a book for a class they seem to never have it.

If you’re going to charge an arm and a leg, the least you could do is have the book there in stock so we can have it for our classes.

Yes, I understand that selling books is a business but selling a book for $55 more than wholesale price is ridiculous.

If there is anyone out there that knows how to solve these problems than let the rest of the college students know.

Until then I guess we will continue to get robbed.

Aaron Cooper is a senior Communications major from Sharon, Tenn.