Unbelievable Textbook Cartels | Zoë-Marie Beesley

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-05-01

Summary:

" ... Besides such units or courses of which send to you a complete set of learning materials readily printed. The reason that the market has not forced lower prices for textbooks is that the textbook publishers are few and noncompetitive as they have a reliable consumer base, from professors assigning the text. 'This results in one of the very rare real world cases in which the price elasticity of demand is nearly zero.' (Albright, 2013) Therefore, similar to new edition iPhones, releasing new editions of textbooks have a reliable consumer demand ..."

Link:

https://zoemariebeesley.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/unbelievable-textbook-cartels/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.textbooks oa.economics_of oa.books

Date tagged:

05/01/2016, 08:47

Date published:

05/01/2016, 04:47