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    1. Jonathan Ichikawa‏ @jichikawa 28 Mar 2019
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      This seems to be the time of year when all the academic publishers come to all the professors with their shiny new textbooks to suggest adopting them for their courses next year. So it's a good time for professors to remember how much textbook costs affects students' well-being

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    2. Jonathan Ichikawa‏ @jichikawa 28 Mar 2019
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      Unlike the economic choices we read about in intro econ classes, where supply curves and demand curves interact to set a fair price, textbook selection is made unilaterally by instructors, when the students are the ones who have to pay for it. This distorts the price dramatically

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    3. Jonathan Ichikawa‏ @jichikawa 28 Mar 2019
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      Many professors literally don't know what their assigned textbooks cost. It's not a selection criterion. This means textbook publishers have no incentive to compete on price. There was a good Planet Money about this a few years backhttps://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/09/16/494266135/episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-climbing …

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    4. Jonathan Ichikawa‏ @jichikawa 28 Mar 2019
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      Professors who ignore textbook price are pushing the burden of their choices onto students. A recent UBC AMS survey found that the mean undergrad expenditure on textbooks and course materials is $760 per year.https://www.ubyssey.ca/news/online-assessment-materials-costs/ …

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    5. Jonathan Ichikawa‏ @jichikawa 28 Mar 2019
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      I understand that workload for university instructors is sometimes excessive. In some cases, the expensive textbook that you've developed your course around over years, that comes with online grading resources, is the only thing that makes an instructor's job possible. Sometimes.

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    6. Jonathan Ichikawa‏ @jichikawa 28 Mar 2019
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      Similarly, expensive anthologies might be the only way someone can manage to teach a new course in an area they don't know well enough to find, select, and make available an appropriate selection of readings. Sometimes.

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    7. Jonathan Ichikawa‏ @jichikawa 28 Mar 2019
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      But for those of us with manageable teaching loads, or those of us who know the area well enough not to need to rely on an anthology, I think there's very little excuse for demanding that our students buy expensive textbooks, when cheaper or free options are available.

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    8. Jonathan Ichikawa‏ @jichikawa 28 Mar 2019
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      This is especially relevant now, as the vendors come with their new books. You haven't planned your course for years around this new expensive book. Is there really any good reason to start doing so now?

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    9. Jonathan Ichikawa‏ @jichikawa 28 Mar 2019
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      If you have 50 students and you're considering requiring a $100 book, what you are considering doing is literally requiring that your students give $5,000 to a publisher. Think seriously about whether that is justified.

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    10. Jonathan Ichikawa‏ @jichikawa 28 Mar 2019
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      (If you will teach this course twice a year for the next ten years, and you don't want to switch textbooks, then we're talking about $100,000 of student money. How much more work would it take you to find the links to appropriate papers yourself? Is it worth it?)

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      Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson 28 Mar 2019
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      Costs to students should be taken into account, for sure. But I also think (good) books (not textbooks or overpriced anthologies) are valuable physically and intellectually. And the money also goes to support publishers and authors, and to keep book writing alive.

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        2. Jonathan Ichikawa‏ @jichikawa 29 Mar 2019
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          Totally agree about this. People should buy good books, for sure. But it would take a lot to make me require a student purchase. Thankfully there are often other options: via library resources, etc.

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        3. Jonathan Ichikawa‏ @jichikawa 29 Mar 2019
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          I asked @ubclibrary to buy an ebook license for Knowledge and Its Limits in advance of my epistemology seminar this year. Some of my students bought the book and I encourage them to, but they can get it electronically at no cost to them too

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