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Originally Posted by tompe
When I was a student the audience was price sensitive. If it was cheaper to pay for copying the book using relatively expensive copying machines then people got together and did that. Sometimes not even buying one book because they could borrow the book from the library to copy.
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What used to tick me off about college textbooks was when there'd be a new edition every year, and no substantive change in the content, apparently just so the instructor could insist on the specific edition for each class, forcing students to but new books instead of used. Do they get kickbacks or something?