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Textbooks are insanely expensive because corporations got involved. Lecturers should use free or independently published resources to prevent the extortion of
by 1letterunixname 4y ago
Textbooks are insanely expensive because corporations got involved.
Lecturers should use free or independently published resources to prevent the extortion of student "consumers".
- metadat 4y agoLots of times teachers are the author of the book, getting kickbacks and / or perks from the publishers, or are simply too lazy to care how atrocious the status quo is.
- anfilt 4y agoI had one class were that was the case, but he also gave all of us a link to the PDF the book. I have heard of though what your describing being a thing.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoYep. It happened one time at uni that a physics lecturer used his buddy's book series. Monetizing students. I'm sure he got a cut.
- metadat 4y agoYeah, and an even sadder fact is usually only ~ $2-4 dollars goes to the professor / author on a book that costs $100-300 dollars for a student to purchase. A lot of times the person spent so much time and energy writing their book, this is a major motivator to mandate / force it's usage whenever possible. One time my art teacher made us buy his book, but it was only $30 and was pretty good actually, and I still have it on my shelf today. However, such cases are the exception.