As a student right now I staunchly refuse to ever pay full price from a textbook, and if possible to not pay for one at all. The prices we're charged are ridicu

As a student right now I staunchly refuse to ever pay full price from a textbook, and if possible to not pay for one at all. The prices we're charged are ridiculous, and the way professors profit even more so. The worst example of this is, and I have no qualms about publicly calling out this professor, is Dr. Alan DeSantis at the University of Kentucky. DeSantis is rather prolific, he gets a lot of press for the university, and I'm pretty sure he's our highest rated prof on RateMyProfessor, so I'm sure he knows he can basically just do whatever he wants. But for his freshman COM101 class, a class where you can basically get all the content out of by just reading the Wikipedia entry on a handful of pop psychology phenomenons, he required us to purchase a $40 "workbook" for taking notes in. But this "workbook" was, quite literally, just his lecture powerpoints with random gaps in sentences. During lectures we had to fill in the blanks as the slides came up, or else we'd have no idea what was going on because he used his own terms and names for pretty much everything he was talking about.