Re: Costs of textbooks

[Larry Smith <larry.smith@SNOW.EDU>]

At 7:43 AM -0500 12/14/01, Spagna Jr., George wrote:
> I, too, decry the high cost of text books, yet ...
>
> Some factors missing from this thread on textbook costs is the role of the
> used book industry, the federal tax codes, and the widespread production of
> "instructors' resources."
>
> Those test banks and CDs and transparency sets and websites cost money.

I think I may be in a minority on the list, but I like, use, and consider
pedagogically helpful many of the "instructors' resources."  I especially
like really good (i.e. instructive) transparencies.

Larry