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You think tuition is bad? Have you seen the cost of college textbooks??

And the textbook people (publishers, authors, etc...) put out a new edition every couple of years with few changes and a juggling of the problems or questions in the book. They do this for no other reason than to sell more books. In my calc class for instance. Starting last Aug we used the 8th edition of the calc book. The difference in the 8th and 7th editions is that they moved one chapter from chapt 8 to chapt 5 and they shuffled the problems in each chapter. If you want to do the assigned homework you had to buy the new book.

For exactly the same book in India, the UK, or Asia the price is usually 33-66% cheaper. I think I need to write textbooks.