How the Publishing Industry's Practices Needlessly Drive Up Textbook Costs
State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) released Ripoff 101 -second edition, a report documenting the high price of college textbooks. The report presents "evidence that textbook prices are a significant part of college costs, that textbook prices are rising at a fast pace, and that publishers use a variety of tactics to inflate the cost of textbooks. In addition, we found that textbook publishers increase textbook prices faster than the rate of inflation between editions and charge American students more for the same books than students in other countries."
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Subjects : Higher Education -- Costs
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