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Uploaded by on Jun 1, 2008

my complaints with the textbook industry

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  • Don't know why you're complaining about the cost of the textbooks. Where I'm from, we get them for free. I expected you to like complain the size and weight of it.

  • you get them for free?

  • The whole selling idea is good, I am so going to start :P

  • good plan :)

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  • I see a lot of sympathy in the comments you are getting. Yet I was asked to comment on "the whole thing" about expensive textbooks. It is caused by a combination of several factors, 1) copyright law, a wholly baseless legal fabrication; 2) government management of education for choosing the textbook, an example of inefficiency; 3) specialized information to a small market, a valuable service; and 4) high taxation upon book producers, and producers in general, because the government is greedy.

  • and thank you for asking if she was going the college route or doing other things - most people just ask what college, rather than if they are doing college at all - it's so annoying.

  • yes, sacramento state :) trumpet major

  • Hey! Congratulations to Kelly! Will she be off to college in the Fall, or exploring other possibilities?

  • Student-run book co-ops are a possible alternative, especially if you can get faculty support for them. I always check prices before I assign a textbook, and when the new version is just a re-shuffle of the old one, I tell students to get whatever edition is cheapest. IT IS SUCH A RACKET! BTW, you do look breathtakingly lovely in this video, without even trying, I am sure :-)

  • my sister is in high school (graduating this week!) and she doesn't have to pay for textbooks - they just give her what she needs and she returns it at the end of the year. i would have appreciated that in high school *sigh* i'd just give mine to the school, but the teachers don't want them using old editions. and thank you for telling me i'm gorgeous :) *big hug*

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