College Textbook Price Gouging — Christopher Hayes is on the case
Christopher Hayes puts aside his other gigs as a contributor to TNR, The Nation, and In These Times to pen a solid piece of kitchen-table investigative reporting over at Campus Progress. Hayes writes, “The high cost of college textbooks used to be like that old joke about the weather: Everybody always complained about it, but nobody ever did anything about it. A new campaign launched by several state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) wants to change that. Started in late 2003, MakeTextbooksAffordable.org has already drawn the ire of the publishing industry by releasing two reports about the industry practices that keep textbook prices high—and by engaging faculty, students and parents in a nationwide push for reform.”
