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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Textbooks for $400

The New Era of the $400 College Textbook, Which is Part of the Unsustainable Higher Education Bubble

Mark J. Perry | July 26, 2015


A new milestone must have been established recently – we’re now officially in a new era of the $400 new college textbook and the $300 used college textbook, see graphic above showing the top 15 most expensive textbooks at the University of Michigan-Flint based on a new unpublished report by Matthew Wolverton, an electronic resource management librarian at the Thompson Library (UM-Flint’s library). 

How often are we going to use our $400 textbook?
Source: http://9gag.com/gag/6235051/how-often-are-we-going-to-use-our-400-textbook
<more at https://www.aei.org/publication/the-new-era-of-the-400-college-textbook-which-is-part-of-the-unsustainable-higher-education-bubble/; related link: http://blog.akademos.com/the-dawn-of-the-400-textbook-and-helping-college-students-fight-these-costs (The Dawn of the $400 Textbook and Helping College Students Fight These Costs. July 28, 2015>

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