Why the textbook marketplace is fundamentally broken
This is an easy issue to solve. Require colleges to include all required expenditures and fees in their tuition and then they can provide all textbooks and materials to the students.<p>Watch how fast textbook prices fall when there is that much money to be saved by the university. You won&#x27;t have professors choosing the $350 book when the $55 text from 2 years ago will work fine because their employer will not allow it.<p>And this would not be some revolutionary law.  We already have myriad laws in place for deceptive pricing practices. Many countries have laws against things like a &quot;resort fee&quot; that gets tacked on last minute.