I just spent almost S$180 on 2 books for 1 of my modules for next period (including shipping). This is already US$20 cheaper than getting the books on the school bulk purchase here, which is in turn €10 cheaper than what they'd cost in bookstores.

There were some cheaper deals on other online booksellers, especially half.com which had someone offering one of the books at a dirt cheap price, but the parochial bumpkins have not yet discovered globalization and only ship within the US.

Luckily I managed to get the book for another in Singapore before I left, so there's only one textbook left to get.

Someone: that's why comapnies that publish these books can have really nice huge buildings on new york's 6th ave
prentice hall
its like next to the rockerfeller center or something
1011 ave of the americas