"Textbooks, free and illegal, online; Use of pirated works hurting publishers" by Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | July 18, 2008
Faced with soaring prices for textbooks, cash-strapped students have discovered a tempting, effective, but illicit alternative - pirated electronic books, available for free over the Internet.
Textbook piracy is particularly seductive, McCoyd said, because students are often hard-pressed to pay for academic books that can cost more than $100, three times the price of most other books."
Yeah, I always felt they were way overpriced.
It's what is known as a CAPTIVE MARKET!
