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Monday, August 03, 2015

College textbooks 1,041 percent more expensive now than in 1977

Salon: Incoming college freshmen will be paying 1,041 percent more for their textbooks than their peers did in 1977, according to NBC’s review of Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Nicole Allen, a spokeswoman for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, claimed that the dramatic increase is the result of students being “captive consumers,” incapable of buying anything other than the books they’re assigned. But such sentiments don’t accord

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