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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
From forbes
The Rip-Off: Textbooks cost the average American student about $900 per year. New editions often come out every three years and tend to run 45% more than used copies of previous editions. Between 1995 and 2004 textbook prices rose at more than four times the rate of inflation, according to Nicole Allen, a director at Student Public Interest Research Group, a student advocacy group. "Students are a captive audience since professors decide what books they need to buy," says Allen.
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This will change in the near future, in fact my daughters school already did away with traditional textbooks and she got a handful of CDs this year instead.