Textbook Question

[cookderosa]

Hi,

Forgive me for the very dumb question, but most of my B&M credits are from the early 90's before everyone was on the internet.

Anyhow... I remember having to buy textbooks from my school bookstore and hoping that I'd be lucky enough to get one of the used ones before they were all gone. We're so lucky now to be able to shop around on Amazon, eBay, etc to get the best used text!

I will hopefully be enrolling in my Capstone class (if I can pass Principles of Finance on Monday) and wanted to go ahead and buy my textbook. I went to the COSC online bookstore and once I found the book I needed for my class, I searched for it on both Amazon and eBay. After seeing the used book costing over 100 dollars, I was very surprised to find several brand new books for $48 dollars!

On closer look, these new, cheap books are "international editions." Does anyone here know what that means and is the book good? I want to take advantage of the price, but 48 dollars is still a lot of money to spend if the text won't work for the class.

Thanks!

My husband and I buy IE all the time. They are exactly the same, but hard to resell because buyers are unsure.
I have heard storries of lesser quality paper, black/white only, etc. but I've not encountered it. We've bought maybe 15 or so IEs.