Should Textbooks Be Allowed In Schools

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Every semester college students go into the bookstore to buy books that their professors assigned for class. Little do they know those books could run them up to a thousand dollars. Throughout the years bookstores have gone up on their prices tremendously causing many negative outcomes from their buyers. That's why I propose that colleges lower the prices of textbooks to make it affordable for students. After conducting some research I have a better understanding as to why textbooks cost so much and how we shouldn't complain. After all, it takes plenty of money to create books and the company as well the authors have to make money. With everything being said, I believe the prices on textbooks should be lowered to help college students, yet …show more content…

Throughout the years prices have sky rocketed causing many negative things to come out of it. The Government Accountability Office released a study that states, "Between 2002 and 2013, the price of college textbooks rose by 82%" (USAToday). That is a huge difference that students right now are paying for a book that has a possibility of never being used. Not to mention that books are not included in tuition causing students or parents to take out more loans to cover the costs. An article that USA Today published mentions a survey they executed with over two thousand college students across one hundred and fifty campuses. This survey states, "That 65% said they had decided against buying a textbook because it was too expensive. Nearly half (48%) said the cost of books had an impact on how many or which classes they took. And 94% of the students who had skipped buying a required book said they were concerned that doing this would hurt their grade in that course" (USAToday). This numbers on its own shows the negative impact of how textbooks are priced too high. From personal experience, this semester I was required to have a math textbook and a separate book that continued the answers for the odd problems in the main book. When I went to purchase it at the local bookstore the lady working their said I had to buy them in a package and brand new. The two books rang up around two hundred and eighty dollars. I was shocked because of the price but didn't have another choice because my professor wanted me to have them for the next class. However, a week later a friend's brother sold me both books for two hundred dollars and they were brand new as well because he never used them. I took the books back to the book store and saved myself some money. What made it worse was that my professor mentioned in class that for the new semester they were changing

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