High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Students

Re:High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Stu... by cde-v on Sunday June 04, 2023 @11:40AM (#36186469)

Sounds like we have to peacefully protest until Citizens United gets overturned so the publishers can't just out lobby/spend us. Then continue peacefully protesting to change the tuition/book cost structure.

Totally realistic set of goals, but until then I'll be pirating.

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Re:High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Stu... by bequanna on Sunday June 04, 2023 @12:09PM (#36186724)

Don't try to externalize blame when it falls squarely on University Executives and Administrators.

Their primary focus seems to be empire building: Create as many admin positions under me in the Org Chart as I can get away with and extract as much money from students as possible to fund the growth of my empire.

This has been allowed to happen because they have essentially unlimited access to funding, no accountability and can make hand wave arguments about needing more staff (DEI, etc.)

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Re:High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Stu... by Danjoe4 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @12:33PM (#36186988)

The solution is gov loans for higher ed needs to be contingent on a given school having administrative costs be less than 10% of their budget.

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Re:High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Stu... by cde-v on Sunday June 04, 2023 @12:26PM (#36186914)

So peacefully protest the University Executives and Administrators?

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