Perhaps this should be on the "Chit Chat" board... but....
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Originally posted by ktsnake
He should sue the book manufacturers for backing him into such a corner with their HIGHLY overinflated prices.
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Are the prices really so overinflated? After all, it's not a novel. Textbooks take years to write, and have a very limited distribution. The authors usually hold doctorates, and for them to even want to write a textbook, there has to be some financial gain - after all, it comes out research time, and research is the real backbone of universities. I know a professor that recently published a textbook, because he felt all the others were too overpriced - and it still was $96 (CDN).
Of course, you could go after them for wanting to republish the book every year with a new edition. But not sue. People sue too much.