@LilithandLuna: That's how education is these days. Capitalism works because the buyer spends the least they can and the seller gets the most they can. But when a middleman is making choices in the transaction (read college professors) with no personal incentive to keep costs down, you wind up with prices above real market value. Consider this statement from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED497025.pdf which reads, "The textbook market is remarkable because the primary individuals who choose college textbooks (faculty) are not the people that pay for those textbooks (students). Only a few other organized markets in the United States are similar in this regard. A comparable situation exists in medicine where doctors prescribe drugs for their patients, but do not pay for those drugs."
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