University Business Ethics

Every year in Ontario, students are forced to pay thousands of dollars for University tuition. With classes come textbooks, and that is going to be the point of discussion. My friend and I go into the bookstore of UWO recently to purchase my textbooks. I see a girl buying one of her first year sociology textbooks. We see her holding up a used version of the old text book, and a brand new edition text book. The old one was about half the cost of the brand new one. We tell this girl that the old version is exactly the same as the new version, so she opens it up and realizes the only difference is the added index at the end of the book, and the template in which the book was designed. This is a perfect example of the money hungry professors out there. They know that when a student buys one of their books new, that they receive an X amount of royalties, so what they do is make new versions of the book on an almost annual basis in hopes that students don't realize the miniscule differences that exist between the old and new books, and end up buying the new version of the textbook. I would like to remind all those professors out there that taking advantage of students (most of whom who need to take out student loans to be here) is an extremely low and disgusting tactic. You'r 6 figure salaries should be more than enough to live comfortably in a country like Canada, so please stop being assholes and just use the same textbook as a year or two years prior. The material is pretty much the same thing.