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Originally Posted by starrigger
My brother is the coauthor of a college psychology text. Every four or five years he works his butt off rewriting, reshaping, revamping his textbook according to what the publisher wants, what the teaching needs seem to be, and what the latest research shows.
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It's the four 'revised' editions the publisher spewed out with merely cosmetic changes in the intervening five years that people regard as exploiting impecunious students.
Nobody was calling the text-book authors lazy or greedy - the dig was at the publishers and their seemingly universal tactics to gouge a captive market.