This sort of situation happened with one of my Calculus books in college. The new edition came out, there were no used copies yet, and e-readers didn’t yet exist so I had to buy the crazy expensive book (over $300 and that was over 20 years ago). The book store offered to buy it back for a measly $20 bucks after the class was over. I refused on general principal, I’d rather give it away to someone.
This sort of situation happened with one of my Calculus books in college. The new edition came out, there were no used copies yet, and e-readers didn’t yet exist so I had to buy the crazy expensive book (over $300 and that was over 20 years ago). The book store offered to buy it back for a measly $20 bucks after the class was over. I refused on general principal, I’d rather give it away to someone.