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Originally Posted by pl001
Nobody has shown any evidence that college bookstores are there to make a large profit for the school's bottom line.
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Not exactly. But posts #15, #16, and #21 are evidence in that direction. Publicly available evidence would be stronger, and, if on a jury, the defense attorney might like my level of skepticism towards eyewitness testimony. Still, such testimony is surely evidence.
This next evidence is five years old, and perhaps the situation described is improving, but it is pretty strong evidence that even a non-profit state school can be corrupt when it comes to textbooks:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121565135185141235.html
Compared to
basing financial aid on extra-curricular activity participation, the custom book racket is minor, but it still is, to me, corruption.
Having said that, when it comes to textbooks, I would agree that there are lots of non-corrupt schools. My kids have not experienced the worst practices described in this thread.