re: College Texbook Prices have gone up 1,041% since 1977

My favorite was when my department of English got together and created a university-specific English 101 textbook that cost >$100. It was essentially an anthology. You couldn't get it used because it changed every year. That also meant you couldn't sell it back.

I don't know how those buy back student bookstore employees could handle it when they had to tell a student who spent $200 on a textbook that they could sell it back for $5 because a new edition was coming out the next year. That is insanity. I ended up keeping many of my textbooks.