Quotes & Sayings About Expensive Textbooks

Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence. — James Surowiecki

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive. — Bill Gates

Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more. — Sarah Churchwell