Cut Financial Aid for the textbook Publishing Houses!

The overpriced,  burdensome book lists for university classes are a thorn in the side of many a student.  Teachers, Professors, Accomplished Esteemed Gurus,
please, please stop pushing this horrible waste upon us.  I invite you to carefully, honestly consider the following questions before you assemble and distribute your next course textbook list:

1.  Would you want this text on your home bookshelf 20 years from now?
2.  Does this book provide any universal or long term reference material or does it have an expiration date into obsolescence as soon as the said course ends ?
3.  Would your local public library stock this book today?  Would this book retain it's appeal to your librarians and be borrowed and enjoyed 10 years from now?
4.  Does the text cost more than $20.00?
5.  Why do you like the text?
6.  Will you refer to this text forever more as a timeless classic (Chaucer)  or essential reference (Like the Oxford English Dictionary)?
7.  Is there a universally accepted text (for example the PDR, Complete Works of Shakespeare, the OED) for your subject that might be a better, more valuable, option for your students and still support the learning objectives of the course in question?  
8.  Do you know your subject and course content well enough to create your own printed materials?
9.  Are there works in the public domain that contain the equal or similar content?
9.  Will the bookstore buy back the bulky, overpriced, soon useless textbook you have chosen for your class?
10.  Is there a chance you will not use the required text during your instructional period?
11.  Does the text offer fewer than five pages of actual information that you will refer to during your instruction?

Times are hard and your students are having to do a lot more with much less than you probably enjoyed when you were in school.  The grants have remained the same for more than twenty years while tuition rates have increased exponentially.  The students with little or no financial support from parents are really placed at a disadvantage economically.  Please make your choices carefully, mindfully and in the spirit of care for our environment and  her struggling students who look to you as an example of well rounded, educated good citizenship and public service.

How to Reuse Books (with pictures) - wikiHow

How to Reuse Books (with pictures) - wikiHow

got worthless overpriced textbooks? this link will help you put those pricey prints into a form more usefull for you!