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Ripoff 101: Gouging Students for Textbooks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-else-is-new dept.

Brad Lucier writes "The San Jose Mercury News covers a report by the California Student Public Interest Research Group entitled "Ripoff 101" about the high, and increasing, cost of university textbooks. The story notes several practices that force students to buy new books instead of used and quotes yours truly about how universities are insulated from the costs of books. Is electronic textbook publishing the way to go?"

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  1. Call the FBI! by fm6 · · Score: 1, Troll
    In it it had a special section where you could go and check out a text book for a few hours. And for $0.15/page you could make copies of it. Or if you were really poor, walk a few blocks with it and make those copies for 5 cents.
    Dude, that's illegal. And no, I don't care, either. But if any publisher reads your post, you can be sure that UoD is going to be told to exercise more control over textbook copying. And they'll comply too, rather than face expensive legal sanctions.