By Aaron Hartley
It’s officially that time of the semester that every student dreads. You’ve barely settled into your classes to find that you have several hundred dollars worth of textbooks to purchase. The fact is, textbook publishers look at students as nothing more than dollar signs, and something needs to be done to ensure we aren’t taken advantage of to the point of making our education a burden.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, textbook prices in the United States have risen 1,041 percent since 1977, significantly higher than the rate of inflation.