The Problem Of Textbooks Prices

According to an article titled (“College textbook costs more outrageous than ever” from today.com by Herb Weisbaum), the College Board “estimates that the average student in this country now spends around $1,200 a year on books and supplies. A single book can cost as much as $200”.

Attention-getter: How much money have you spent just this year alone on college? Hold on now, did you include all the fees? Living expenses? Your meal plan? Obvioulsy the answer is going to be in the upwards of thousands of dollars. Depressing, I know! College should be a time where you are truly discovering who you are and what you want to do with your life. It shouldn’t be about how you’re slowly but surely giving your life away to student loans. Oh yes, student loans, the mortal enemy of any college student. The college tuition alone is already high enough to put you in debt with student loans for a majority of your life. There are many things that factor into the price of a college education, some reasonable, others however, are a different story. Today, I want to talk to you about the scam that is going on concerning the price of college textbooks. An interesting statistic by The Huffington Post tells us that the cost of college textbooks has increased 253% faster than the cost of college tuition over the decade. How come college textbooks are so expensive? And what can we do to stop this? Well let’s get into it shall we.

Paying for the textbooks to help the students to focus on their classes to meet their goal.

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One of the main reasons why college textbooks are so expensive is because they are overpriced. The publishers set the prices. The bookstore has no control. The publishers of the textbooks are in the habit of bringing new editions quite frequently. Most students hesitate to buy old editions fearing that they will miss out on

College students are struggling every semester to afford books required for their classes and this will continue if we allow professors, and college bookstores to take advantage of us. College is already expensive. At FSU tuition is 6,000. Housing is another 6,500 dollars you have to eat so that’s 4000 for a meal plan and we can’t forget about the textbooks and that will be about 1000 dollars. So for one year at Florida State that is almost 18,000 dollars. Outrageous, right? Now that you know about these disgraceful prices. Let me tell you a story about me. The summer before my freshman year at FSU, I was a carefree girl with goals to graduate with a high GPA and at least 2-3 jobs lined up for me to choose from. I arrived to Tallahassee a couple of days before classes and I decided with all of my friends to buy my required textbooks before classes started. Little did I know, what, I was getting myself into. I began my search for my books with my first class which was chemistry 1045. When I finally came upon the book I was shocked. $120.00 for a used paperback book. Still in awe I decided to walk away and collect the rest of the materials for my Chemistry class. Googles, a lab manual, a lab coat and an iclicker which all came out to be nearly $150.00 add the book and I spent nearly $300.00 for one class.

A book that cost 25 dollars in 1978 would have cost 208 dollars in 2013, for an increase of 812 percent, and 82 percent just between 2002 and 2013. This is a higher increase than medical care, housing, and even the consumer price index. The college board estimates that in 2014 an average student paid 1,200 dollars on books and supplies, roughly 14 percent of the students tuition cost. A survey in 1997 shows students paying an average of 642 dollars, almost doubling in 17 years time. This is a drastic increase in the price of books, but what is causing the textbooks to increase in price so severely? The regular inflation rate is one part of the increase in price, but the increase in book costs are more than double the regular rate of inflation, 6 percent over the regular rate of 3 percent. Half of the textbooks produced in 2003 were “bundled” with additions such as a CD-Rom or a workbook, nearly doubling the cost where a non bundled version was available. However, these additional resources are not always used by the instructors. 65 percent of instructors polled reported that they “rarely” or “never” used the additional materials. Another way the cost rises is when a new edition is released, roughly every three years a new edition of a textbook is released. The new edition of the textbook normally will have an increase of price of 12 percent. A text that starts at 50 dollars will cost 70 dollars or more by the time it is on it's third edition. 76 percent of the instructors polled say that the new editions that they use are justified in the “never” to “half the time” range while 40 percent say the new editions are justified “rarely” to “never”. Perhaps the largest contributing factor to the cost of textbooks rising as quickly as they do is one simple fact, there are very few publishers that release college textbooks and four of them, McGraw-Hill,

I do believe that high textbook prices is conspicuous because many students and parents around the country see that the price of textbook are ridiculously high and sometimes they have to take out another loan just to pay them. They also notice that not only do they have to pay thousands of dollars for tuition, they also have to drop another thousand a semester just to buy textbooks and maybe supplies.

Students have number of problems when they are going to college. One of the biggest problem students are facing is buying the textbooks or access code for their classes such as math, science, English, etc. Those students who are freshman they do not realize how much they will be spending for the books and they think they will be only spending $200 but in reality it cost more than $500. Students always seems very confuse, mad and shock after spending this much money on the textbooks. Beginning of semester most of the new students have same question, such as is there any way we can save money from spending so much for these books? is there any website that we can get books for half price? Yes, there

Textbooks cost around average $1,200 a year according to huffintonpost.com, that’s an 812% increase in price since 1979, whereas tuition costs have only risen 559%. It hurts a student when they are required to purchase a $300 book for a class when that student doesn’t even open the book once. With the

`One reason college textbooks should be free is because how expensive they are. The price of a college textbook can start at a hundred dollars. Most students are required to have a few textbooks each semester. So the prices of each textbook will add up and may cost over a few hundred

In the Unit 2 Seminar we discussed three main points: finding the KU library, points on how to conduct research, and using APA. Instructions on how to access the Kaplan University library were explained and addressed. The details of how to contact the librarian via email or chat and points on how to search the database were given. We were encouraged to visit the site and check out the different components to familiarize ourselves with using the site. We were told that there were also instructions posted in the doc sharing tab on “Finding the KU Library Databases” to assist us in our discussion board assignment.

The Georgia Institute of Technology’s Library is a research institution located in Atlanta Georgia. The prestigious academic library is an integral hub for science and engineering students from around the globe. From its small origins in a one room classroom and only one librarian in 1901; the library officially opened its doors in 1907.As of 2014, the library now requires a large staff of 136-150 employees, in order to maintain the academic library. The materials budget varies from $4,000,000 to $6,818,190. A huge portion is spent on periodicals and databases. A portion of the budget, around $250,000 is deviated for monograph or books. A wealth of resources and imperative information, the library’s approximate collection for titles is 1,061,206; volumes is 2,537,869 (including 248,580 e-books).In 2012, 9,229 volumes have been acquired.

For students to be adequately informed about the value of the university library and resources such as the Internet in information retrieval there must be a careful collaboration between teaching staff and library staff (Kenney, 2007). The focus in this task, of course, is preparing students not just for the immediate research project at hand but rather to prepare them to be life long learners, to prepare them to be successful and productive once they leave the academic environment and take up their chosen careers (Lauer & Yodanis, 2012).