Textbooks: Sympathy for the debt-laden
July 27, 2010
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At colleges around the country, it’s a ritual at the start of every semester: Professors provide a list, perhaps as long as half a page, of the term’s required reading, often including books written by the professor him- or herself. Students then go about acquiring the small library they’ll need for that course, and often spend a small fortune doing so. Many common textbooks have prices in the hundreds of dollars.
Sometimes, students are forced to buy a sixth
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