Comments on: We’ll do books, you do proper discounts http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/02/06/well-do-books-you-do-proper-discounts/ online journalism, newspaper video and digital media Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:12:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mindy McAdams http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/02/06/well-do-books-you-do-proper-discounts/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Mindy McAdams Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:15:44 +0000 http://andydickinson.com/?p=179#comment-166 So far we have not gotten into requiring students to buy software. We do "require" them to buy books (some of the students don't do it, and there's no way we can force them). The education pricing for most of the online production software is quite good -- except for Photoshop, which is still very expensive. I find that most of the serious students in online design do buy Adobe Studio 8. Where and how they acquire Photoshop ... I don;t ask and they don't tell. So far we have not gotten into requiring students to buy software. We do “require” them to buy books (some of the students don’t do it, and there’s no way we can force them).

The education pricing for most of the online production software is quite good — except for Photoshop, which is still very expensive. I find that most of the serious students in online design do buy Adobe Studio 8. Where and how they acquire Photoshop … I don;t ask and they don’t tell.

]]> By: Ed Walker http://www.andydickinson.net/2007/02/06/well-do-books-you-do-proper-discounts/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Ed Walker Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:38:47 +0000 http://andydickinson.com/?p=179#comment-165 I agree with Mindy's thoughts but I do not feel that higher education courses, particularly the one I'm on, would advocate the purchasing of software over books. Especially considered the pathetic provision of books we have for some modules in our library. The financial situation is getting tougher, I had to buy a laptop the other week because my desktop finally packed up and died (managed to revive it enough to get the hard drive off and backed up), but now I have to take on a part-time job as well as my final year studies to finance having this laptop. I've got a digital camera, with a decent Sony Mic, I've got a laptop (with all the right software, but there's no way it's proper software because there's no way I can afford to buy it), but I've also got McNae's Essential Law for Journalists and The Ethical Journalist by Tony Harcup and they are just as essential to my course, just because of the way it's structured. I agree with Mindy’s thoughts but I do not feel that higher education courses, particularly the one I’m on, would advocate the purchasing of software over books. Especially considered the pathetic provision of books we have for some modules in our library.

The financial situation is getting tougher, I had to buy a laptop the other week because my desktop finally packed up and died (managed to revive it enough to get the hard drive off and backed up), but now I have to take on a part-time job as well as my final year studies to finance having this laptop.

I’ve got a digital camera, with a decent Sony Mic, I’ve got a laptop (with all the right software, but there’s no way it’s proper software because there’s no way I can afford to buy it), but I’ve also got McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists and The Ethical Journalist by Tony Harcup and they are just as essential to my course, just because of the way it’s structured.

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