Casebook "professional edition" ? Forum

[TTH]

I'm looking on bigwords.com for casebooks and in one of the product descriptions, it says the following

This is a Professional Copy. It is a US edition book, same as the student edition, except with free copy markings.}

Has anyone ever used a "professional edition" casebook before or know what they mean by copy markings?

[MURPH]

It sounds like more reading. Just what you'll need.

[MrKappus]

[noquieromas]

It's a free version, given to a professor or other "professional." Just as book and music critics sell their free promotional copies of new releases to used book and record stores, apparently now law profs are doing the same. I'd imagine law profs -- especially those that teach big lecture courses and 1L classes -- get dozens of these each year. At $150 a pop x 90 students x however many years the prof teaches, there's a lot of $$$ at stake for textbook publishers. Pretty funny that they're selling them online, given the dubious legality of the practice, but it's probably better than throwing them in the trash. And it could be lucrative. A book critic buddy of mine makes a good $250 a month selling promo copies to the local used bookstore (he used to simply "return" them to Barnes and Noble, but I think they got wise to that shit). But he's getting $5 a book, not $100 or whatever a "like new" casebook is worth.

I don't want to mock OP for the RC fail, but just to be clear: "free copy markings" means it has "FREE COPY" written all over it.

[MURPH]

There was a girl in my nursing school who's mother was a prof at another school. She was famous for being the first one done on every test and scored the highest in most classes. No one trusted her. I'll bet anything she had the teachers edition of the tests with the disk for the test questions. (I am old. this was back in the days when computer information was stored on disks.)

[TTH]

I don't want to mock OP for the RC fail, but just to be clear: "free copy markings" means it has "FREE COPY" written all over it.

D'oh. And to think RC was my best section. Mock away.