When Books Break the Bank
Tamar Lewin,
New York Times,
Sept 17, 2003
The prices for textbooks are high enough, and publishers have added the more recent practice of bundling texts with guides or CD-ROMs, and the net result is a cost to students far out of proportion to the value they receive. It won't be long before the internet becomes a genuine alternative, at which point we will hear a collecting wail from the publishing sector. It's a wail that should be ignored, because of the abuses happening today and documented in this article. We need alternatives - where is the online textbook sharing network? And where are the professors who would use it?
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