doubleplusundead

March 31, 2010

On the subject of schools - The Federal Textbook Act

It is no elementary school musical version of Scarface, but in it's own way I find it just as amusing.

Government Control over textbook content?

Is Stop the ACLU worked up over nothing? I have never heard of the Federal Textbook Act but it apparently gives the government the ability to review the cost of textbooks and implements some “solutions” to prices that are climbing much faster than the rate of inflation.

The part that has NRO and Stop the ACLU worked up is a requirement that textbook publishers inform faculty members considering a new edition of a textbook what changes were made between editions. Stop the ACLU is looking at this as an attempt to control content but anyone who attends college knows that one of the major complaints of students is publishers rearranging content or adding some questions to push out a new edition at substantially higher prices and forcing adoption by not printing the older editions any longer. This appears to be an effort to address that.

I don’t really think it is the government’s place to be involved but I also don’t think there was a nefarious plot.

(Note; This law was signed by George Bush in 2008. It became effective this year)

Posted by: chad98036 at 12:06 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 217 words, total size 2 kb.

1 I agree on your point about textbook makers changing something silly and making you buy a new textbook.
I'm also upset about how they charge you $100 for it, give you $20 when you sell it back and then charge $90 for a used one.

But I don't think the gov't should get involved in either situation.

The few books I didn't keep I sold free market for half what the bookstore wanted but twice what they would have given me.

Posted by: Veeshir at March 31, 2010 08:20 AM (4/NOO)

2 My solution was just to ask the guys in the class before me how much they used the textbook, and if it was more than rarely, I'd give them half what they paid for the old book. They got back more than the store would have given, and I paid half what it'd have cost me.

Posted by: MikeD at March 31, 2010 08:46 AM (FkL60)

3 Thanks for ones marvelous posting! I certainly enjoyed reading it, you can be a great author.I will be sure to bookmark your blog and may come back someday. I want to encourage you to ultimately continue your great writing, have a nice evening!
we've got many new users here who recently got an Apple iPod touch or an www.apple.com/ipod/start. To use it you must first download and www.ipod.com. The instructions to download it and install it are below.
ipod.com is needed in order to sync your device, and also to download or sync applications or music from the App Store.

Posted by: linda_wu at January 07, 2012 09:49 PM (0BJ/l)

Hide Comments | Add Comment