> What makes you think its colleges and universities that set the cost of textbooks? Perhaps not set at the University-level, but they likely allow ethically d

> What makes you think its colleges and universities that set the cost of textbooks? Perhaps not set at the University-level, but they likely allow ethically dubious practices that inflate the cost of texts and line the pockets of their teaching staff. Being a university drop-out, I took the opportunity to test the waters at my local technical college for a Cybersecurity program during the lockdown with a free first-year program. For the English course, I was required to purchase a $120 dollar copy of a book authored by $PROFESSOR_1, $PROFESSOR_2, et. al. - this was a small collection of stories NOT written by these professors but simply chosen by them and printed by a firm which provides what one can only describe as kickbacks to these professors. Of course, each year two or three stories are swapped out such that one could never purchase last year's used copy. So are the universities explicitly setting costs? No, but they're full-well not setting standards and practices to reign them in either.