New legislation being proposed in California could substantially change the cost of providing textbooks to college students.
The bill would mandate the creation of new textbooks to be offered for 50 different undergraduate courses. Electronic versions of the textbooks readable on computers and mobile devices would be available for no charge, with print versions costing around $20.
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Cutting the price of books by 90%-100% is a good start...but when it costs $100K to go to school for 4 years and it gets you nothing but unemployment, the system is still broken.
Other states should follow their example. The cost of college textbooks is such a scam. In this day and age you can get the same information off the internet for free yet you are forced to shell out hundreds of dollars. When I was in college the college algebra book was nearly 200 bucks and so was physics. The other core courses were in the 100 dollar range. You are talking about spending this kind of money each one or two semesters for 6 or 7 classes just so the school and the professors can get kickbacks from the publishers.
Quote:Cutting the price of books by 90%-100% is a good start...but when it costs $100K to go to school for 4 years and it gets you nothing but unemployment, the system is still broken.
Bingo, I been unemployed for a while *tho I live in Canada*; and the governments turn a blind eye over hear worst than in the States. (We have the best Bank in the world right now, our economy is doing just fine... High school students are smarter than they were 5 years ago, so we don't need to improve our quality of eduction... Our solution for colleges being too expensive, allow more colleges to open up so they can be closed in the near future!)
But yea we have no issues over here.
Getting back on the topic of digital text books, I see this working until they get dinged for copyright infringement and nailed for piracy. OH WAIT, it's legal when politicians want to do it, but the average student that has been doing this for years...
