I have read about those shady techniques from publishers. Universities should refuse to deal with them and those proven to take favours for making these publishers required should be penalised.
Ultimately, students make a pretty poor voting demographic (especially in Republican state legislatures in the south).
So if a college earns some kind of financial benefit from choosing a particular text "solution", then that's money the state doesn't have to fund.
If students want this to change then they need to organize politically and make it a clear demand, as they're the only stakeholders impacted by higher priced textbooks.
So if a college earns some kind of financial benefit from choosing a particular text "solution", then that's money the state doesn't have to fund.
If students want this to change then they need to organize politically and make it a clear demand, as they're the only stakeholders impacted by higher priced textbooks.