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« on: 01/22/08, 07:42 PM »

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The high cost of textbooks is now having a direct impact on student’s education. When looking at the previously stated study by the Public Interest Research Group it claims U.S. college students spend $900 a year on average. The high cost has now forced about 60 percent of students to forgo purchasing a required book because of it’s cost according to a National Association of College Store study.

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« Reply #1 on: 01/23/08, 03:57 PM »

I have to agree with that statement. There's been enough times where people have bought an older edition or shared a textbook because of the price. I can understand why textbooks cost so much but there is no need to release a new edition every year so that students have to buy new copies and can't get anything for their old books.
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