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I'm guessing you haven't dealt with the spiral-bound, Kinkos-printed "text" written by the professor, sold for $75, and updated every semester to prevent resale?

My wife had two of these every semester for her last two years of college.

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How is that a "kickback from the publishers for forcing these (always crap) textbooks on their students" ?

I'm not denying that black sheep exist, I am denying a pervasive conspiracy of "big textbook" to the benefit of the professors.

Also, an easy solution to not everyone buying Kinko-printed spiral bound lecture notes easily comes to mind...

I see the downvotes, but I still don't see how some guy self-publishing and printing his own book at Kinkos is proof for a conspiracy in which publishers collude with professors to force students to buy books from that publisher. If anything, it's an example for the exact opposite.

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