Another article about the increasing cost of textbooks, this one filled with numerous statistics. Such as: "In 2000, students spent $5.2-billion on new books and $1.8-billion on used books, according to the National Association of College Stores. A year later, new books sales had increased to $6.1-billion. But used books sales dropped to $1.6-billion." Careful, though, some of the data is fishy. The dollar bill graphic, for example, fudges the distribution of revenue from book sales by describing the publishers' income in several different categories, some 'after tax'.
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