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Rick Uttich

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October 31, 2006


Textbook Publishers' Tactics Raise Costs for Students, Report Says
<http://chronicle.com/news/article/1215/textbook-publishers-tactics-rais
e-costs-for-students-report-says> 


College-textbook publishers use at least six types of "gimmicks" to jack
up the prices of their products and undermine the market in used
textbooks, costing a student hundreds of dollars a year, according to a
report issued today by the Student Public Interest Research Groups, an
advocacy organization. The report,
<http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/Required_Reading.pdf>  "Required
Reading: A Look at the Worst Publishing Tactics at Work," says the
publishers' techniques include bundling their books with costly but
needless workbooks and CD-ROM's, releasing updated editions that provide
little essential material that's genuinely new, and offering customized
books that are useless outside the classroom of the professor who
assigned them.