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Originally Posted by teh603
The whole case also proves just how greedy the textbook companies are. Instead of making them available to everyone at Thai prices (which are probably closer to the "cost of manufacture" prices that you're supposed to get in a "free market," ), they sue to keep gouging US students.
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I suspect publishing is not a very high-margin business, in which case accusations of profiteering may be misplaced, but feel free to correct me if I am wrong. On the other hand, students are a perfect instance of a captive market, particularly when publishers collude with professors to insist on the necessity of a new, but scarcely modified, edition every year. This shameful practice not only ensures incoming students pay $150 for new textbooks, but it cuts the legs out from under outgoing students trying to resell their old copies.