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Old 11-08-2006, 05:59 PM
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I'm older than the hills, but I remember budgeting about $100 per class for books a couple of decades ago.
Me too-- and as the mother of 5 college students, I think that the price of textbooks is obscene. But what kills me as a professor is when my students ask if we get kickbacks from the sale of the books and that's why they're so expensive. Yeah, right! We wish!

We rarely have much of a choice in textbooks--they're ALL expensive. Why do these companies include a CD in their Spanish book package? The students never have time to use them nor do we.
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