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As an exchange student spending a year in the US, tf is thisbrbrIt would be so obvious for the government to limit the extortionate practices going on from these textbook companies
Comment from : Sean Douglas

My old roommate had a professor that taught a textbook HE AUTHORED, and had a new edition EVERY SINGLE YEAR It's robbery
Comment from : BoyProdigyX

The person who made this video didn’t go to college You can tell they researched the video, but it’s clear what they researched they don’t know what any of it means
Comment from : Lethabo Mthimkulu

$500 a year? LolbrMore like $3,000 a year Those STEM bookz are like $400 average each
Comment from : PointingOutObvious

Student downloads textbooks to device:brCollege book publishers: wait That’s illegal
Comment from : John Foltz

One thing that sucks is that one of my classes doesn't just require an online textbook, but also a single use code in order to access any of the homework that we have to do for the class The book that has this code is damn near 50 dollars, and when I asked him for help with this he just told me that "The ebook is required for the course and I'm afraid it would be very difficult to pass without those assignments For most college classes the book is a separate expense along with registering for the class"brbrWhy do I have to pay a separate expense for the class when I'm already paying for the class? I'm supposed to be paying for YOU to teach me, not the book Either include the book in the price for the class and give the students the access codes to access the materials or don't use the ebook at all It should not be my responsibility to pay a third part for my education when I'm already paying the college for my education
Comment from : Kerotaro

2nd hand Textbooks or rentals are prevented by adding restricted codes? to printed material? did i just come out of a cave or does it not make any sense at all?
Comment from : Fnorx

The price gouging is insane So glad that some professors are switching to journal articles and free resources
Comment from : KopyKatH20

If you're in need of a book but can't afford it or don't want to spend so much without knowing if it's worth it, do let me know I have lots of downloaded eBooks I may have what you're looking for I'd send it for free Though if you feel generous, I don't mind taking tips 😸 But seriously, I have a whole lotta ebooks in here (epub/pdf)
Comment from : Pirate Angel

I’m so glad that I live in Europe !
Comment from : Grâce-Caroline Alumbassa

I remember some professor just outright gave students a pdf version of the textbook used in the course because he wrote that textbook and he hated the publisher
Comment from : lamedumbjoker

In scenarios like this im in the side of piratery the intellectual owner lose but i think that people that cant afford a textbook to finish their studies lose way more
Comment from : insanee12

I bought 3 new textbooks, 1 for English and 2 for Business Got them in the mail and realised I paid b$439/b for loose leaf pages Rip off
Comment from : Evan Pryce

It has simply become a big scam, folks
Comment from : Tasty Pies

There was one class I needed that required a book that was at least 120 from the school bookstore, bought the same book online for about 10-15 dollars…🤷🏽‍♀️ Please try your best to save money
Comment from : Musclecore Y

Something that’s ridiculous is that in high school and lower levels of education, textbooks have always been free in my schools In most of these classes I have never used these textbooks so I asked my teacher one day, “why do we have to get textbooks if we never use them?” She said it’s because it’s the law It’s ridiculous that hundreds of unused textbooks are free for lower levels of students but can’t be made free to college students who need to use them
Comment from : swofozu

If we pay for going to school, textbook should be free!
Comment from : Mobiusium

We get text books for free :)
Comment from : Pahan Jayasooriya

insulin
Comment from : Nako simpson

we just download it online i havent purchased a textbook yet
Comment from : Nimit Jain

Demacrats
Comment from : Louis Cyfear

I buy my books on second-hand stores so I get a huge bargain from the original price
Comment from : DK4709

Don’t even get me started on how some of these companies get over Sometimes they call it a new edition but all they changed was the cover art so they can hike up the price Professors would tell us to find upperclassmen who hadn’t sold their books yet and try to buy those if we couldn’t afford the new book asking price
Comment from : emayaych

It really doesn’t matter if I care about the class or not…I still don’t have the $150 to spend on that many college text books You instantly, in many cases, go from a world where all your books are given to you (elementary, middle, and high school) to a world that expects you to have a significant amount of money existing out of nowhere (college and grad school) without any preparation It’s a debt making machine
Comment from : emayaych

I don't care about the textbooks but why won't the schools pay in bulk for the textbooks for all the students We're already paying for and taking out massive student loans for classes and tuition anyway
Comment from : ThePowerBunny

This infuriates me to a whole new degree of anger
Comment from : Heather Feather

Just buy one and Xerox it 🤣
Comment from : Aditya Shinde

Simple Because they can
Comment from : Mike W

Yup, I have over $50000 in useless books now
Comment from : Lynn Leigha

In my country we get them for free
Comment from : Nik 007

This is why piracy exists
Comment from : R3VERSE CARD

😓😓
Comment from : Mr Satan

a mf like me just use a pirated one🤷‍♂️
Comment from : biji png

interdasting
Comment from : remghoost

The video does not explain WHY the books are so expensive It just explains how publishers and students battle each other
Comment from : Henry Middleton

Ncert ka nam suna hai
Comment from : Anmol Sinha

Why not just photocopy it
Comment from : Shanky Lion

College textbooks are literally a scam just a legal one
Comment from : Leo Bieker

nice vid, saw it on googlecom
Comment from : LC

capitalist pigs
Comment from : EmbodyingOcean

Why not make photocopies of a book?
Comment from : Milena Romero

College is a hustle, and high school is false advertisement
Comment from : Jeffrey Rodriguez

I am a student the cost of my textbook can buy one Iphone every year Fortunately, I found a website bookstore whose book very Cheaper all of my book can buy from this website
Comment from : Sheng Zhang

Did I miss the answer or did she not give one?
Comment from : The Rogue Rockhound and Prospector

if society falls because lack of knowledgebrTextbook publishers should be put to blame
Comment from : Potato Onions

Hey so we all have that problem of being poor cant afford $200-$300 books well I have a solution so you can hit me up on here for my contact info and if I have your pdf book its $20 per book 🙏🏿
Comment from : ManMan

bAh, yes Cartels/b 🕵‍♂️👀
Comment from : Hector Andem

Or just go to a civilized country where education isn't monetised and your professors give you the materials for free
Comment from : Jon

So you're saying the publishers are a cartel?
Comment from : JB24

When I was in college back in the late 90s, I needed a text book for recorder method (I was in a music education program) the book was about a half inch thick and spiral bound It cost $60 We never used it but it was "required" Adjusted for inflation that soft cover, cheaply made and useless book costs 100 today We were pissed
Comment from : Timothy

They are expensive because they jack up the cost
Comment from : X

Get a group of friends, buy one book and photo-copy itduh
Comment from : Anton Emilit

If you take a math major, the textbook cost is nearly zero, bc you usually can just google a pdf for that If not available, used books come cheap toobrbrbrbrbrLaw school student: I regret my decision now
Comment from : Mahiru Best Waifu

Don’t forget about the Pearson Lab that cost $120 like Science Lab and MathLab online assignment
Comment from : LasVegas Nevada

Greed is a powerful enemy
Comment from : Giraffeman

God bless Library Genesis
Comment from : saboo

1970s to present Some things never change: I remember my text books costing $25-3500 and having a hard time buying them on a waiters salary I made a copy by hand on 8x11 copy paper of a friends text book and laced the pages together with string and made my own coverr boards That was in 1976 I sold that book for five bucks the next year
Comment from : Nicco Arcadia

ALL free right here no joke- wwwmediafirecom/folder/ydwsyj9c1v5gi/Texts Every subject you can think of -your welcome BTW!!!
Comment from : RX tech and trading

And The Universities support their projects (The Publisher Companies)
Comment from : Gaw Mic

When is it going to become illegal to exploit college kids for absurd profit?
Comment from : Foxhound645

Just search up a pdf for free lmao
Comment from : Rafid100

Ok, now why are high school year books so expensive?
Comment from : doro626

Why can’t you just get a friends textbook and take pictures of them?
Comment from : abbit_ 06

1) Because schools are greedy
Comment from : l0v3n0n3

Textbooks may be the only commodity I feel justified in pirating
Comment from : Ной Олинский

Over-pricing textbook on poor students is a freaking crime
Comment from : Edward V

Honestly some departments just love to strong arm you into buying expensive textbooks I’mbrSpending 300 for textbooks next semester and 200 is for only one class, the other four are a combined 100
Comment from : Michael Higgins

Colleges the biggest Scam in America
Comment from : TSDamiano G

Torrent came to the resue
Comment from : Ameer Hamza

Yep, I had a discrete structures course that had a $300 textbook There was no Codes so I just used Libgen Got the book for free saving me $300
Comment from : Brendan

Bundling wasn't a reaction to used books Used books have been around for a while Unnecessary new editions and bundling are what some publishers do to try to get a larger share of the market The latest attempt to get rid of used books is the inclusive access model This is when you get charged an added fee with your tuition for a given class The digital version of the book gets delivered to you through the campus/school web portal There's a federal law that says you can't resell any non-tangible product And most inclusive access programs are exclusively digital So this kills the used book market However, the prices of digital books in inclusive access models are quite cheap Also, the inclusive access models only give you access to the book for a limited time So you are actually renting the book, not buying it So does this solve the problem? Not really The used book market will eventually dwindle, removing competition Prices will come back up when the used market starts to die
Comment from : tyler durden

She sorta did say why it was so expensive
Comment from : 100colorpencils

In India you can get all your textbooks for around 40 $
Comment from : Atharva Shah

In the UK we don't even use textbooks Actually, I think I bought one "textbook" in my entire time, which proved quite useful for that first year Introductory course It was optional and cost less that the equivalent of about $45
Comment from : Capital B

Those students paying so much for textbooks, should search the web a bit There's countless free pdf forms of textbooks online at maybe a edition other than the latest but it still works
Comment from : chemist7

Internet has all knowledge of mankind and its 100 free if you know how to search for them Why on Earth people forced to buy paper based items that will be used only once in their entire lifetime ? It's time to put all polishers out of business for ever, ALL KNOWLEDGE OF WHOLE OF MANKIND must be FREE for every one to use them, any time and any where No private interest should stand in the way of mankind prosperity !
Comment from : The

how much do you people in USA pay in average per book? I've personally never had to pay more than 50 per one, well i'm saying have, actually i wanted it for several reasons, it was not a requirement for my course and even if it were there's a lot of pdf's sharing in my college any way i'm purchasing a new book and lets say it costs like 30, and I wanted other, but I wasn't able to find it in spanish (my native language) so I looked for in in english, like 40, but it would arrive late, so I reaserched prices in ebooks, oh boy couldn't they be so greedy? i'm not lying when i'm telling you that the 30 book costed three times as an ebook than physical book as a completely new book and the 40 book was't even available as an ebook, are you kidding me!? what a scam, by the way, the 30 book was a thermodynamics one, and I ain't paying 90 bucks for that not even considering that I wanted it in the first place
Comment from : Nit

It's basically lots of pieces of printed paper that cost $150
Comment from : No one

Please modify the title to "Why College Textbooks Are So Expensive 'in America' ?"brThis is the most dysfunctional aspect of free markets, of which I am an embarrassed votary brbrAmerican academic publishers are doing, what is called price gouging and the government is looking away I don't expect the man with the straw hair to do anything about it But someone should have brought this to the notice of Obama
Comment from : SUBIR NAG

Never bought a book just listened to the professor
Comment from : Eduardo Salgado

$500 a year?!! I'd easily spend $300 every other month and most of the books we didn't even use! But we had to buy them because they bundled the homework code in with the book
Comment from : TrueEnergizerBunnies

This is so unfair and wasteful
Comment from : T H

Get books that are in the public domain Nice thing about software development is the documentation is usually on a web site I have read some non text books for programming though vs a college textbook programming book The non textbook didn’t have much practice exercises at the end of each chapter
Comment from : jonny777bike

If you look at first year calculus books Most of that was done in the Leibniz and Newton
Comment from : jonny777bike

How am I soppose to highlight the crap out of my ebookbrI like digital books, but I miss using highlighters on traditional books
Comment from : Johnny Guerra

In grad school I bought ALL the mandatory books and most of the recommended and only paid a couple hundred bucks or so per semester I found all my books on amazon too
Comment from : Iron man

borrow someones book take picture of it
Comment from : alxe vargas

I am 13 years old I just came to see what my future is gonna be like
Comment from : TOTODILE

Or they would bundle a CD rom in the textbook which jacks up the price significantly
Comment from : John Foltz

education system in USA seems its more about money than education that's pathetic
Comment from : Aishay Kel Shay | أي شي كل شي

You could use the internet get smart
Comment from : Nhung Hà Phương

Freshman mistake, going to the bookstore and buying everything on your list like youre harry potter wait until you have assignments due for the book in question to buy it I spent $20 this semester
Comment from : funstuff81girl