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Originally Posted by murg
Since most of the universities in the US as government owned, I wonder if the ethics and/or anti-corruption laws may be applied to stop the professors from forcing their students to buy the professor's books.
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If I'm reading this right, I'd need to see some numbers. I believe that most universities and colleges in the US are non-profit, but private, institutions -- even allowing for state and county colleges (and the occasional city-owned university, like CUNY). Aside from military academies, I don't know of any federally owned college/university.
However, even back in the 70s the college book market was a racket. Texts were hardcover, and some were available on the "used" market, but every course I took had lab manuals or additional curricula texts that had been prepared by teaching staff and were much more expensive than the text books.
My college sold off it's university-owned bookstore in the 90s. I think they're now farmed out to B&N.