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exboyfil

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8. This is where the feds could have a roll

Reply to got root (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 05:40 AM

Mar 2012

in college especially. A good portion of the fed grant/loan guarantee money goes towards paying for high priced textbooks. I cannot understand why a Chemistry book for example costs nearly $200. The DOE could easily make available open source copies of such textbooks.

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DOJ accuses Apple and other publishers of price fixing e-books [View all] FredisDead Mar 2012 OP

THANK FSM!!! backscatter712 Mar 2012 #1

I wonder if they were behind the push flamingdem Mar 2012 #3

Yeah that's why the high Icrap sales worry me -- easier to monopolize under those conditions... Pholus Mar 2012 #2

lol got root Mar 2012 #6

Wow - ohheckyeah Mar 2012 #4

The amazoning thing is seeing a book for $15.99 exboyfil Mar 2012 #7

the textbook loby must be pissed... and they have a long and storied tradition of price control got root Mar 2012 #5

This is where the feds could have a roll exboyfil Mar 2012 #8

Let's hope the "battle of the titans" gets both to spend down their piles of cash. Pholus Mar 2012 #9

well, i'm definately root'n for that ;) got root Mar 2012 #10