Comment by dragonwriter
20 days ago
> For the overwhelming majority of students, tuition is not paid out of pocket. It's paid with loans. They see it as an investment towards a career which will allow them to pay back those loans. For many, the weight of their debt does not sink in until well after college. Meanwhile, textbooks are an immediate cost with an immediate impact on a student's financial situation.
Textbooks can equally well be paid for with college loans, they aren't restricted to tuition-only.
> Textbooks can equally well be paid for with college loans, they aren't restricted to tuition-only.
Making the financial problem with study costs in the USA even worse, more cash to buy textbooks from credit means higher prices that can be extracted for the books, just like any other good which is mostly paid through easily achievable loans.