College Insurrection\u00a0<\/em>blog<\/a>, a project of law professor William Jacobson.<\/p>\nWhen I first started university teaching, I never bothered to wander through the bookstore and see what the books that I assigned actually cost. Once I did, I was suitably shocked.<\/p>\n
After I had taught a little more, I began to realize that, for instance, the differences between the “fourth edition” and the “fifth edition” were not exactly substantive.\u00a0 They mainly existed to damage the used-textbook business, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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