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Re:High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Stu... by hgsgm on Sunday June 04, 2023 @01:22PM (#36187458)
Why would schools send money to publishers that they can hoard for themselves?
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Re:High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Stu... by x0x0 on Monday June 05, 2023 @03:12AM (#36193393)
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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