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Originally Posted by Teyrnon
I'll be curious to see what the prices look like. I remember paying a hundred dollars or more per book, used, for a few of my textbooks in college. I'd hope electronic distribution would reduce prices to a reasonable range. I can remember one particularly egregious example was a small and thin volume that ran me $180 if memory serves.
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Unfortunately, that's highly unlikely to occur. Textbooks are expensive because they are
extremely costly to produce (compared to fiction), and have a very restricted market. The printing and distribution costs are negligible compared to that. Electronic distribution might reduce the price of a $100 textbook to $90, but you're never going to see $10 textbooks in fields like medicine.