People keep talking about "the end of print" as everything moves online. Probably the last things printed on paper to go will be those for which there is a captive audience and a required reading list:
The 11,000-plus students at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne are paying on average 50 percent more for textbooks than they were three years ago.
“Those (book prices) have skyrocketed,” said Joel Wenger, director of financial aid at IPFW.
According to Wenger, students paid an average of $400 for books per semester in 2003-04. That figure jumped to $600 this fall. The university surveys how much students pay for books per semester every year in order to tell prospective students what they should expect.
There is an online component to the story. Some students are shopping around for bargains, including at Amazon.com, instead of just plopping down the asking price at the college bookstore. I have a good science book from my college days I'll let go for five bucks, by the way. It has a lot of nifty stuff about the nine planets.
