• @[email protected]
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        135 days ago

        At least those professors seem to either price their books reasonably or readily pirate it themselves to distribute.

      • The Quuuuuill
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        85 days ago

        the good ones ensure older verisons are still valid for their course work and only do annual editions because they’re contractually obligated by their publisher.

    • @[email protected]
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      45 days ago

      The cool professors used to make a “study guide” especially if it was their own book that they’d give out for free and told everyone to return the books

      It’s been a minute, so not sure if it’s a thing still.

      But yeah. Unregulated capitalism pretty much always ends this way.

      You have to buy the book, so they pump out new editions constantly and charge insane prices. It’s a captive market