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You got my vote! Now what about the college book pricing issues. One semester I paid for my books cost more than the classes I took. It was that bad. Even worse was that the book companies ensure you need the access code to the online portal in order to do anything. This ensures the used book market is nonexistent

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BaaS - books as a service. I am noticing that whenver "as a Service" is suffixed to X, it becomes far less useful and far more expensive than X was originally.

It's called rent-seeking. Like Pantone demanding $15/month to use their colors.

Or lobbying

It's the American system. In the UK professors did everything in their power to avoid students having to buy textbooks, based on my experience at 3 different universities...

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