I used to work text at a campus bookstore. Our profit margin was, at most, 20% on text books. In some cases, we dropped that to zero because professors had ordered such obscenely expensive books! We had one professor who, surprise surprise, not only required his own book, but didn't permit students to buy it used! He would come by the store and steal the CDs out of the used copies so that he could send the students back for the new copy.
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I used to work text at a campus bookstore. Our profit margin was, at most, 20% on text books. In some cases, we dropped that to zero because professors had ordered such obscenely expensive books! We had one professor who, surprise surprise, not only required his own book, but didn't permit students to buy it used! He would come by the store and steal the CDs out of the used copies so that he could send the students back for the new copy.