Rising costs of textbooks
Many people will agree that college is a huge part of most people's future. College will open many doors throughout your life, and the key to success in college is studying. Most college professors will require you to have more than one textbook during a semester, and when you first hear about he textbooks required, the school sends you to the bookstore on campus which will have the majority of the books. The rising price of textbooks is becoming an issue. Even though the school bookstore has to make a profit off of textbooks, the prices are too high considering the quantity of books students need for all classes. Why are the prices of textbooks so high? And, why are the prices growing as rapidly as they are? The overall cost of college is tremendously higher than what it was ten or fifteen years ago. And it is very rare that students and their families are able to pay for college completely without taking out some kind of student loans. Do textbooks deserve to be this price? Are they really all that different than what they used to be? For the most part, textbooks have always had nearly the same information as they always have. But with more style and design on the cover and throughout the book.
The prices of everything are constantly rising due to inflation. Not too long ago, gas prices reached four dollars a gallon. The highest in history. With prices going up in nearly every category, the price of textbooks were affected and raised as well. It seems that publishing companies and authors are taking advantage of students, due to the fact that they have to buy textbooks, across the country just to make as much profit as they can. How much profit do they even make off of one textbook? Some textbooks required for class are over a hundred dollars to rent. Not even to buy and make your own, to rent and return after the semester. And that's if its not damaged in any way, which will cost you more. Some courses like math, only require one giant book. But,
The prices of everything are constantly rising due to inflation. Not too long ago, gas prices reached four dollars a gallon. The highest in history. With prices going up in nearly every category, the price of textbooks were affected and raised as well. It seems that publishing companies and authors are taking advantage of students, due to the fact that they have to buy textbooks, across the country just to make as much profit as they can. How much profit do they even make off of one textbook? Some textbooks required for class are over a hundred dollars to rent. Not even to buy and make your own, to rent and return after the semester. And that's if its not damaged in any way, which will cost you more. Some courses like math, only require one giant book. But,