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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
That has less with money to do than "publish or perish". It is a common practice for "mid-level" professors to fill their required quota of publications, when establshed academic publishers reject their manuscripts.
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That doesn't explain the common practice of tweaking the textbook just enough so that the previous edition in the used bookstore is useless. That sounds like a deliberate attempt to make money at the expense of their students.