At Eastern, a student's tuition bill includes a textbook rental fee. At the end of a semester, students have the option to buy their books back with depreciation taken into account until the book reaches 50 percent of its original value. The ones who get taken advantage of are the students because, at the University, students have to buy their textbooks.
Every year books cost more and more.
The students are the ones left paying these high prices. Professors who write textbooks and then make them required course material make lots of money. Another way students are taken advantage of is when there is a study guide with the textbook. Usually, if a study guide is recommended, it's meant to be a tool to help understand material and prepare for tests. Professors might even wrap the same textbook they used for a previous semester with a new syllabus, forcing students to buy the textbook new, rather than allowing students to buy the used textbook and a syllabus separately.