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One area of huge savings is the purchase of college textbooks. As this article notes, college textbooks are hugely expensive and among the most “outrageously overpriced products.” Post-secondary schooling is run like a cartel and a huge cultural brainwashing machine has most people thinking that there is no credible option for success in this life outside of the status quo in-class approach.
September 2, 2010
6 outrageously overpriced products
By Amy Bell, Investopedia
College textbooks
As if college kids (and their parents) aren’t financially drained enough, there’s yet another inflated price they face: college textbooks. College students pay an average of $900 a year on textbooks and other supplies. College textbook prices have skyrocketed by 186 per cent since 1986, and these expensive volumes of knowledge now account for 26 per cent of the overall cost of college. Unfortunately, broke college students are required to purchase these costly books for their classes. At least they can try to sell their books back to local book store at the end of the semester – for a few measly bucks.