June 9th, 2013 at 1:10 PM
I would agree. I think that classic novels are some of the most valuable works we have available. However, since their authors are dead, it really makes no sense to charge a fortune for those books since the profit only goes to an individual publisher.
Textbooks are outrageously expensive today. Paying $250 for one texbook that probably costed maybe $5 to print simply isn't right, but since their competitions are doing it, individual textbook makers get away with the high prices. I suppose a significant part of that also has to factor the time taken to write the textbook as well.
Textbooks are outrageously expensive today. Paying $250 for one texbook that probably costed maybe $5 to print simply isn't right, but since their competitions are doing it, individual textbook makers get away with the high prices. I suppose a significant part of that also has to factor the time taken to write the textbook as well.