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

I took a Maymester course at South Carolina where the professor assigned a book he had co-authored. The book came with a CD that loaded a program we had to use in order to submit assignments. Overall cost for the book was $480. By the second day of class, 2/3rds of the 120 students (including myself) withdrew from the class because there was no way we were paying that in order to take a class for 4 weeks.

Later came to find out the professor was making over 20% in royalties from sales of the book, which is well above the average for the author of an academic book. I've never been particularly keen on complaining about the overall cost of an education, but that instance was just a pure money-grubbing sham. Felt bad for all the students who fell for it.