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Re:Why Are College Textbooks So Absurdly Expensive? by dakimov on Thursday January 10, 2013 @08:05PM (#5040760)
Maybe the problem is not copyrighting itself, but that the US education system is entirely a rip-off? The copyrighted books not touched by the educational hoax are pretty cheap.
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Re:Why Are College Textbooks So Absurdly Expensive? by watty on Thursday January 10, 2013 @08:14PM (#5040795)
I'm not sure I see the correlation between copyright and the value of US education system. Can you clarify?
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Re:Why Are College Textbooks So Absurdly Expensive? by niggler on Thursday January 10, 2013 @08:24PM (#5040837)
The bubble in college textbook prices is related to the bubble in tuition costs etc, which are both driven by the easy student loans.
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Re:Why Are College Textbooks So Absurdly Expensive? by dakimov on Thursday January 10, 2013 @08:28PM (#5040845)
Individually for a student it is pretty justified to use pirated educational books, because the students are clearly being ripped off. But just turning this into another anti-copyright campaign is not the right thing to do.
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