I came across this article about a Western Michigan University religion class that requires a $355 textbook, which is written by the professor! That's a shock there. To continue, the total cost of the required books for his class is $638. There are seven required books and five of them are written by the professor, 83 year-old Rudolf Siebert.
The story gets better from there (Click to Read the Story), but Siebert contends that students don't actually need to purchase all the books, and they certainly shouldn't buy his expensive one. That begs the question, then why make it a requirement? College textbooks is such a scam that this story just puts more fuel on the fire. How many books did you actually use that were "required"? I always bought my books online from Half.com and when I had a literature class, I had my local city library find the books in advance for me to check out. It was still a pain, and even though I think I made a profit by selling back my online books to the school bookstore, the outrageous cost of books still made me upset.
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