Do publishers mess around with the used-textbook supply?
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I''ve been sifting through the dozens of responses I've received from professors in our Public Insight Network who are talking about what they're willing to do to keep textbook costs down.
I found the tidbit below from University of Minnesota - Duluth math and statistics professor Chad Pierson a bit unsettling.
Hardball capitalism -- or urban myth?
I know that on the demand side, we as instructors should control the market. But a bookstore clerk once told me that the publishing companies buy used texts off the internet and shred them to ensure demand on the newer editions.
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