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Originally Posted by redpoint5
The evil isn't downloading textbooks, it's the publishers pushing their outrageously priced products onto a captive audience, and the administrators who are complicit in selecting those expensive textbooks.
Publishers offer the textbooks for free for the administrators, there is zero talk of price, and then they simply elect to make the textbook part of their curriculum.
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I have several copies of music history textbooks and ear training textbooks that were given to me by publishers when I was teaching.
My engineering mechanics textbook lists at the school bookstore for $223, and when I went to the bookstore to check it out in person I was surprised to find it's only the first 14 chapters on statics--so the students will have to buy the second part of the book for as much or more next semester!
I bought the international (complete) edition for $29 (I don't do PDF textbooks since I like having a physical copy to annotate).