Yep, text book scam. ....been going on since I can remember. ..I think the profs are in on it too. ..
Amen. We were continually screwed in college back in the 70s. They hated letting us buy used textbooks. So, revise a page or two in the book and require us to buy the new one for the class. That happened a lot.
Another little trick that they used to pull was requiring us to buy a brand new book and then when we got the class they only wanted to reference a small portion of the book. Maybe one chapter was all we were required to read out of the book.
I had a statistics class in my junior year and we were required to use the textbook that coincidentally one of the faculty members had written. It was an open joke because with the book, term after term you were given about 20 Xerox pages correcting errors in the book on the first day of class.
I found it quite telling that the professor who wrote the book and probably the whole department were not in the least bit chagrined.
“Yep, text book scam. ....been going on since I can remember. ..I think the profs are in on it too. ..”
Interesting statement. I have noticed a few of the instructors I am in classes with are published through these companies. I think you are absolutely correct.
Stupid high tuitions
high priced books...
broken curriculum and degree programs...
All designed to keep the cash flowing into these institution/indoctrination camps...
another part of the education system that is broken.
“Yep, text book scam. ....been going on since I can remember. ..I think the profs are in on it too. ..”
It was going on when I was a student, 40 years ago, though the prices were much lower back then. One of the electives I took was “Engineering in History,” and the professor didn’t assign us a textbook. Instead, he wrote a set of notes, which told the students everything they needed to know to pass the exams, no more, no less. Then he put the notes in duotang folders, called it the “Engineering History Compendium,” and sold them for $2 each. Even in those days, it was a great deal. I think he only got away with it because he was also the associate dean.