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
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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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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@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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