Textbooks: Textbook prices
stretch student budgets
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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.
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Construction: Andy Warhol
inaugural exhibit at art museum
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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.
When the museum opens it will
be displaying a traveling exhibition
by Andy Warhol.
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