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Bundled prices and and a lack of price visibility often promote extortionate pricing, bribes, etc. The value of the current arrangement is students can't ignor
by x0x0 3y ago
Bundled prices and and a lack of price visibility often promote extortionate pricing, bribes, etc.
The value of the current arrangement is students can't ignore the prices.
I'd bet a nice lunch that if books were part of tuition, the net dollars flowing to publishers would increase.
- hgsgm 3y agoWhy would schools send money to publishers that they can hoard for themselves?
- x0x0 3y agoBecause you only fight so hard to reduce costs that you can just pass through. Schools -- assuming willingness / ability to spend $ on education is fixed -- are already losing $ that could have gone to them to publishers.