College textbooks have been pretty ridiculous for a long time in their quest to stay relevant. At this point though they're facing some big threats: Tons of in

College textbooks have been pretty ridiculous for a long time in their quest to stay relevant. At this point though they're facing some big threats: Tons of information freely available on the internet, some of it already structured into a curriculum. Open source textbooks that are free online or cheap in print. E-Books, which are much easier to copy than a textbook, hence the NFT scheme. I guess it's only logical for them to try and survive, but if feels like a losing game for everyone right now.