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Textbooks: Textbook prices stretch student budgets Continued from page 2B students had the option of purchas ing the textbook without the extra material. The bundled software cost twice as much. Standish said CD-ROMs don’t add much to the price of the book. He added that the CDs are more for mar keting purposes. According to the report, publish ers update textbooks, on average, once every 3 1/2 years. Seventy-six percent of the faculty surveyed felt that new editions were justified “half the time or less,” and more than half of those faculty said the new editions are “rarely to never” justified. The old editions become unavailable when students try to look for used copies, forcing them to pay an average of $102 for a new book, rather than an average of $65 for a used book. According to an OSP1RG press re lease, few changes were found be tween Thomson Learning’s 1999 edition of “Calculus: Early Tran scendentals” and its 2003 edition, which sells for about $130. A used edition can be found for $20 to $90. Standish blames the high prices of textbooks on “limited demand and a high cost of production.” University Spanish professor and textbook author Robert Davis said another reason for the high prices is the free materials and textbooks the professors request. To compensate for those free materials, bookstores raise prices, he said. He said articles and pictures in the textbook, as well as color, cost publishers a great deal of money. Another factor in the price is the used-book market. New books would be cheaper if authors and publishers were paid every time a used book was sold, Davis said. Publishers are starting to make changes in response to the high prices, he said. The new edition of a textbook that Davis wrote will be sold at a lower cost than the price of most new textbooks, he said, adding that McGraw-Hill, the textbook publish er, is doing this in response to com plaints about textbook prices. “They streamlined production costs and cut corners where they could,” he said. OSPIRG’s study provided a few recommendations to keep the price of textbooks down. One recommendation was pro viding the option of buying text books without bundled items. Oth er recommendations included keeping textbook editions on the market “as long as possible without sacrificing the educational content,” creating on-line editions and provid ing more forums for students to pur chase used books. Petkun said book swaps are a more affordable way for students to pur chase books. OSPIRG has set up a Web site, www.campusbookswap.com, to do this. The University Bookstore is work ing on setting up one of its own, Petkun said. omiedrawhom@ daily emerald, com Construction: Andy Warhol inaugural exhibit at art museum Continued from page IB Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Early next year the long awaited art museum renovations will finally be complete. The newly renamed Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is ex pected to open January 2005. The new museum will feature galleries devoted to American Regional art, Northwest art and Korean art, as well as a new space to store the University’s famous collection of Japanese and Chinese art work. A cafe is also being added on the ground floor, in the hopes that it will draw in new patrons. “It might be that thing that attracts those that don’t normally come into the museum,” museum spokeswoman Katy Sproles said. 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