{"id":8980,"date":"2016-09-16T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-climbing\/"},"modified":"2016-09-16T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T21:00:00","slug":"episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-climbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-climbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 573: Why Textbook Prices Keep Climbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2016\/09\/16\/494266135\/episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-climbing?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/09\/16\/gettyimages-527513646-b9bfa15879c3fbb7affecfed6c3413eab8d6e64e-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Textbooks. <strong>Richard Baker\/Corbis via Getty Images<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span>Richard Baker\/Corbis via Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Note: This episode originally aired in<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2014\/10\/03\/353300404\/episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-climbing\"><em>October 2014<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Listeners have been asking for years why textbooks are getting so expensive. Prices of new textbooks have been going up faster than clothing, food, cars, and even healthcare. On today&#8217;s show we found out why prices won&#8217;t stop rising.<\/p>\n<p>We speak to a student who took a course that required a $310 textbook, professors who pick the textbooks that their students have to buy, and a CEO of a textbook company who, it turns out, doesn&#8217;t like talking about books. We also venture into the parallel universe of the high school textbook market.<\/p>\n<p><em>Music: &#8216;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcom.com\/#!\/results.aspx?pageNo=1&amp;resultsPerPage=20&amp;viewTags=1&amp;mode=work&amp;sortFilter=Default%3C\/p%3E%3Cp%3EDesc&amp;keyword=618466&amp;keywordType=1\">Bout That Live<\/a>&#8216; and &#8216;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcom.com\/#!\/results.aspx?pageNo=1&amp;resultsPerPage=20&amp;viewTags=1&amp;mode=work&amp;sortFilter=Default%3C\/p%3E%3Cp%3EDesc&amp;keyword=712751&amp;keywordType=1\">Road Coffee<\/a>.&#8217; Find us:<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/planetmoney\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>\/<\/em><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?ref=home#%21\/planetmoney?ref=ts\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2016\/09\/16\/494266135\/episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-climbing?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Episode 573: Why Textbook Prices Keep Climbing\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2016\/09\/16\/494266135\/episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-climbing?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2016\/09\/16\/494266135\/episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-climbing?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/09\/16\/gettyimages-527513646-b9bfa15879c3fbb7affecfed6c3413eab8d6e64e-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Textbooks. <strong>Richard Baker\/Corbis via Getty Images<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span>Richard Baker\/Corbis via Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Note: This episode originally aired in<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2014\/10\/03\/353300404\/episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-climbing\"><em>October 2014<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Listeners have been asking for years why textbooks are getting so expensive. Prices of new textbooks have been going up faster than clothing, food, cars, and even healthcare. On today&#8217;s show we found out why prices won&#8217;t stop rising.<\/p>\n<p>We speak to a student who took a course that required a $310 textbook, professors who pick the textbooks that their students have to buy, and a CEO of a textbook company who, it turns out, doesn&#8217;t like talking about books. We also venture into the parallel universe of the high school textbook market.<\/p>\n<p><em>Music: &#8216;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcom.com\/#!\/results.aspx?pageNo=1&amp;resultsPerPage=20&amp;viewTags=1&amp;mode=work&amp;sortFilter=Default%3C\/p%3E%3Cp%3EDesc&amp;keyword=618466&amp;keywordType=1\">Bout That Live<\/a>&#8216; and &#8216;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcom.com\/#!\/results.aspx?pageNo=1&amp;resultsPerPage=20&amp;viewTags=1&amp;mode=work&amp;sortFilter=Default%3C\/p%3E%3Cp%3EDesc&amp;keyword=712751&amp;keywordType=1\">Road Coffee<\/a>.&#8217; Find us:<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/planetmoney\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>\/<\/em><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?ref=home#%21\/planetmoney?ref=ts\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}