Then students will just end up paying more in tuition, possibly more than the costs of textbooks. That extra money of course will go to increasing either/both the university president's or lead football coach's salaries.
The colleges will raise tuition anyways, and they do it at a runaway cost. Might as well throw in something useful and tangible like textbooks that they can bargain wholesale with the publishers. Individually, the students can only beg.
So you're saying colleges will just increase tuition to cover the cost of textbooks right?
Or they could lay off some middle managers. If they blame the layoffs on AI the market might even reward them for it.
The market will reward colleges for layoffs?
And what, use the historically fabulously successful flat model?
The authors are "the press". So they somehow pay themselves?