College students have complained for years about the high prices of textbooks that they must buy for class, and they're right. It's a rip-off. The publishers issue a new edition for a previous text every two years or so, with higher prices, to keep the books "current".
It's more about "currency" than "current".
It's more about "currency" than "current".
To save money many students have turned to renting books, buying used books, or going online. However, even these prices can be can be expensive, and even though these places flourish because of this scam, books quantity is less available.
Last semester my books came around to be $700 dollars for only four classes. When I went to sell them back I didn't even get a third of what I spent on them. Some of the books I couldn't even sell, due to the fact that a new edition is issued every year.
The price of college textbooks has increased nearly five times the rate of inflation in the past decade. Many students or parents spend almost a 1,000 dollars per semester each year. Something has to change.
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