The essay I most enjoyed this semester was "Why Are Textbooks So Expensive?” A partial reason I enjoyed this essay so much is because I can relate to it, seeing as I have to pay for books myself, and textbooks can clean out a bank account quickly. I find that some textbooks are not very expensive and some, such as a biology book, are outrageously priced. Reading this essay really made me think about why they are so expensive: revisions and newer issues constantly being made and corporations taking over the smaller textbook companies and merging them into a higher profit seeking business. However, the author, Henry Roediger, said that even these should not affect the price of the books skyrocketing, but the reason for such high prices is the ever changing marketplace in the economy.
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