Reddit reviews Acta Philosophorum: The First Journal of Philosophy

Yeah, OP is fabricating hard. For instance, the first one he mentioned is $1500 if you get the nearly 20-year-old first and, apparently, only edition. I doubt it's in use too many places right now.

Same with the chemical reactors book -- yeah, $600, but it's for a book from 1986, apparently. The environment one is from 2003. You get the idea. He's cherry picking like mad, and I don't think he's using current editions of anything.

Way to not post the rest of that article. They claim the book at #1 can be found for under $200, though I can't find it. As far as I've seen, you can get the book listed at #1 for $440. The second book can be had for the low low price (/s) of $330.

And I also don't see any reference to actual courses where these books are required. Something like #5 looks like it's probably a medical school textbook, which I guess I didn't exclude explicitly, but I thought it was understood that we're really talking about undergrad textbooks.

Smells like bullshit. Let me check those prices.

Acta Philosophorum The First Journal of Philosophy: $270

Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications: $283

Management Science An Anthology: $37

History of Early Film: $224

Biostatistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology: $140

Companion Encyclopedia of Psychology: $40

Feminism and Politics: $4

Concepts and Design of Chemical Reactors: $149

Advanced Semiconductor and Organic Nano-Techniques: $195

Ethics in Business and Economics: $4

Environment in the New Global Economy: $400

Solid State Chemistry and Its Applications: $40

Of course, they're still a rip off.