Textbook prices too much, so UVSC prof eliminates their use

[GraceAbounds]

Textbook prices too much, so UVSC prof eliminates their use
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 07/20/2007 09:23:12 AM MDT

AM- OREM - No one needs to tell a college student that education is expensive.
But the cost of textbooks, now that is an extra special gripe for students - and their teachers.
One professor, Utah Valley State College's Ron Hammond, got so fed up that he's eliminated textbooks from his sociology courses altogether.
"I think it's immoral because of the cost of it," Hammond told the Daiy Herald newspaper.
The Government Accountability Office says textbook prices have risen at double the rate of inflation for the last two decades, coming in slightly behind tuition increases. The average first-time, full-time student at a public four-year school spent nearly $900 on books and supplies in 2004.
The Daily Herald reports today that Hammond has gotten rid of all the books textbook companies had given him.
He also re-did all of his courses, basing his tests and quizzes on the new material, writing his own questions because he no longer has access to banks of questions that come with the book.

Salt Lake Tribune - Textbook prices too much, so UVSC prof eliminates their use

College textbooks are crazy expensive. (price gouging imo)

 

[Tim]

Isn't it time to put college books on CD? or the net?

 

[GraceAbounds]

Sure would be nice!

 

[IntruderLS1]

Isn't it time to put college books on CD? or the net?

They do, but they still charge you an arm and a leg to access it. Really, you lose if you buy it on the net, because then you lose long term access / reference. Once your subscription is up, it's gone.