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Originally Posted by jonathanmoeller
It would not surprise me if more universities did this, since hardly any students actually keep their textbooks - they sell them at the first available opportunity.
One of my part-time jobs is teaching history on the side, and if/when I wind up teaching again, I plan to switch to more public-domain ebooks to cut down on the cost of textbooks, which is ridiculous.
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Yeah, but it sucks when you have to use the same book across multiple semesters, but you can only buy it for six months at a time. In some of my classes, I've had the ebooks cost nearly as much as the paper books, only access it for 6 months, and was used in back to back semesters. Stupid to be forced to rebuy the same thing.