When the Kindle Price Is Higher Than the Physical Book
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Textbook publishers certainly never made this promise! Why textbooks cost as much as they do -- and how colleges get away with mandating buying new editions when virtually nothing changes (in order to deter buying/selling used books) could be a contentious debate by itself...