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x0x0 on June 4, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: High prices make textbook ‘piracy’ acceptable to m...

Bundled prices and and a lack of price visibility often promote extortionate pricing, bribes, etc.

The value of the current arrangement is students can't ignore the prices.

I'd bet a nice lunch that if books were part of tuition, the net dollars flowing to publishers would increase.

hgsgm on June 4, 2023 [–]

Why would schools send money to publishers that they can hoard for themselves?

x0x0 on June 5, 2023 | [–]

Because you only fight so hard to reduce costs that you can just pass through.

Schools -- assuming willingness / ability to spend $ on education is fixed -- are already losing $ that could have gone to them to publishers.

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