Re: The real scandal behind the scandal
Yes. This was the second thing that got my attention ("HOW much for that book?!?"). I read somewhere that some professors write their own text books, giving them a nice extra revenue stream. One professor I had was keenly aware of the price of books and went out of her way to use books that were less expensive and available outside the Uni's bookstore (another racket), and also to have the print shop assemble booklets of photocopied chapters from other texts and then sell the booklets for the cost of the copies and coily-bindy thingies.
One imagines students calling the police after a break-in and saying "no, they didn't take the smartphones or large-screen teevee, they just took all our textbooks".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
