"Inclusive Access" allows textbook monopolists to permanently consolidate their gains

"The student debt crisis isn't merely attributable to spiraling tuition prices – there's a whole menagerie of feral hogs scrumming to get their snouts in the student debt-trap trough. Take textbook publishers. This hyperconsolidated industry, dominated by a handful of merger-based megafirms, have increased the value of the textbook market to over $3.5b by the simple expedient of hiking prices by over 1,000% . ..."