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Man from Pickens

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1. I was just considering this issue the other day

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2015, 01:38 PM

Feb 2015

I couldn't come up with a good reason why textbooks continue to exist, except as a method of additional gouging of already-heavily-indebted students.

A modern educational institution should be distributing its textbooks electronically.

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Student Groups Pressure Colleges Over the Insane Cost of Textbooks [View all] Purveyor Feb 2015 OP

I was just considering this issue the other day Man from Pickens Feb 2015 #1

They exist because they are cash cows for campus book stores and textbook publishers. tridim Feb 2015 #4

out of control is right DustyJoe Feb 2015 #2

I can only speak for my discipline: Art History. Coventina Feb 2015 #3

I remember when the *total* price of my textbooks was $68 for a semester ... eppur_se_muova Feb 2015 #5

My experience was similar. hunter Feb 2015 #8

Public universities and community colleges in particular should be switching KamaAina Feb 2015 #6

long overdue... Blue_Tires Feb 2015 #7

Cengage and Pearson got to make those precious billions, you know! Initech Feb 2015 #9

Moving the books to electronic will only so slightly reduce the costs of books. dilby Feb 2015 #10

I'd look at an open source text but I'm suspicious of them aikoaiko Feb 2015 #11