So the folks over at Student PIRG’s are making huge headway in the campaign to lower textbook prices. Their web site is a great resource for getting involved and especially for joining the campaign.
A litte more about the campaign.
“What can we do about it?
The solution isn’t simple. We can’t require publishers to lower their prices or force professors to choose less expensive books, since we do not want to infringe on the first amendment or lower the quality of education. We can only solve the problem by fundamentally changing the way that the textbooks market works.
Here is where students come in. We don’t have much economic power against the publishers, but we do have the power to challenge their practices by running a grassroots campaign!
Textbook publishers should have to price their products fairly to gain student customers, and students should have their choice of a range of competing products designed to fit different learning styles and budgetary needs. Students should decide whether to keep, or when to sell their books, and purchase only the supplemental items they need. Higher education is essential to our future, and textbooks should not make it even harder to afford.”
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