Talk:Textbook
From Academic Kids
This seems a bit sensational. Most textbooks are not $100, and many are available used. Perhaps this could be broken up to have a very informative NPOV section at the top talking about:
- what a textbook is
- how they are used in grade school, high school and college
- who generally writes them (type of people, leading publishing houses, etc.)
- the used textbook industry
- how they differ outside the U.S., etc.
Then there could be a section called "Controversy" that talked about the various controversial issues (price, content, revisionism, professors promoting their own books, etc.). The price discussion would be better if both POV were represented (sure, there's price gouging, but textbooks are expensive to produce, so it's understandable that it's hard to make the economics work). The content discussion would benefit from some case/law references. --Meara 03:23, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Just for what it's worth, in my experience (as a current college student) most of my textbooks do indeed cost $100 or more if purchased new. Quandaryus 21:10, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I got a new copy of MIT's calculus book on amazon for $50, I believe it was New, but I'm not sure (in any case, it looked new and didn't seem to have been used). ugen64 00:42, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
