When kids go back to school/college, and typically have to pay a fee for the use of textbooks, or purchase textbooks altogether. I don’t quite understand why kids are still taking textbooks to school. The school systems purchase textbooks for the kids to utilize, but the problem is that they’re doing this 6-12 times, if not more.
Textbooks are typically overpriced, typically obsolete by 2-3 years. Printing a single book by itself has got to be extremely expensive. I don’t know the exact dollar amount, but it’s got to be a couple hundred dollars, per book.
It’s no wonder why the educational systems are broke. They’re spending all their money on textbooks that are going to be outdated in five years. Spending a couple hundred dollars for single textbook over the course of one year of classes with hopes of reselling it for a fraction of the cost; this is a sad dream at best.
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