[neekburm]

I'm really surprised that piracy hasn't been pushing them to more a more reasonable price point, like file sharing did with music. When I went back to school, almost every single one of my textbooks was available in some pirated form. Sometimes one had to settle with the previous edition, which was usually identical to the current edition with some pagination changes. It can be a bit of a pain to get them, but it wasn't $300 per book's worth of pain.

[lukaslalinsky]

Using a pirated textbook is not as easy as listening to pirated music. Paper is actually a pretty good form for textbooks and printing hundreds of pages is not fun, binding them in a useful way is even less fun. Sure, you can just print out the snippets that you need to work with at the moment, but that's not very convenient.