The college textbook and buy-back market is an absolute scam.
If Apple does anything to make collegiate learning better, it should be not only with better technology for learning (iPad, ePub, etc) but by taking the power out of the hands of huge companies like Wiley and Pearson, and distributing it so that those companies have to COMPETE for a change. Give them half a chance to ruin the iPad textbook market, they'll do that too, adding all kinds of restrictions, keeping prices artificially high, etc.
Apple needs to control the game here and force them to "play nice" for the benefit of students (who are already being financially raped by most universities and college loan companies).
...into the light of a dark black night.
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