As a counter to your story, I had one professor who required his students to purchase his own locally produced textbook, which had a new version with different exercises every semester or year, and I guess he made good money off of that because everybody thought he was an asshole for doing it, but he did it anyways.
Public universities should use public domain books for their courses and grad students should be required to add to the public domain teaching materials. Undergrads should also be required to contribute to coursework for k-12.
I know someone who did that with his own book. Why? The publisher fucked him over in terms of pay. He even corrected a mistake in the original one.
As a counter to your story, I had one professor who required his students to purchase his own locally produced textbook, which had a new version with different exercises every semester or year, and I guess he made good money off of that because everybody thought he was an asshole for doing it, but he did it anyways.
Oh, name and shame for that shit.
Richard Burke at Casper College does this and doesn’t even use the book. Costed over $150.
Garbage practice that should be criminal fraud.
Cost
Sorry about being pedantic. It’s a sickness.
Public universities should use public domain books for their courses and grad students should be required to add to the public domain teaching materials. Undergrads should also be required to contribute to coursework for k-12.