[GoLightly]

There's also no way a textbook should cost $80-135 for high school math and science.

I agree. The material covered is almost exactly the same when a "new" edition comes out. They just fiddle with chapters. A two-volume hardcover version might come in at about 2/3 the price each.

I thought they slipped in a bit more of the the leftist dogma with each new edition. No?

Now they are starting to offer the books on CD.

I like that. I like it a lot.

SAME price as the hardcover.

This I do not like. It's outrageous.

[Right Wing Assault]

Remember when the price of sugar went up and the raised the price of (pop, soda, soda pop, carbonated beverages, or whatever you want to call them) went up. But the sugar-free went up the same amount!

[LibertarianInExile]

Some of the 'old school' school texts are available on the Gutenberg project--for NOTHING. Public domain works are, too. The old Guffey's readers certainly are worth teaching from even today.