ASUM Textbook Legislation

The Associated Students of the University of Missouri announced a plan to introduce a three-fold bill to the Missouri State Legislature. The bill will do three things to reduce the costs of textbooks for all college students across the state of Missouri:

1) Require textbook publishers to disclose to both instructors and students the suggested retail price of their books before they are ordered for sale at university bookstores.

2) Encourage the establishment of alternate, less expensive formats of textbooks, such as PDFs.

3) Require that books and other educational materials that are normally packaged in a "bundle" be sold separately.

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[whoo689]

Any way we can force professors to require us to get ONLY books that can bought back at the end of the semester, or at the very least encourage MSA and/or the bookstore to get a deal with publishers to NOT fucking make a new edition every goddamn year?

I think I've had at least 4 or 5 books I couldn't sell back to the bookstore b/c there was a new edition coming out for the following semester or school year. It really pisses me off! Why has no one risen this issue?