That addresses the funding side, but there’s a corruption/conflict of interest side to it, too. Like when the author is also a prof or when the publishers offer kick backs to requiring the textbook.
My habit in uni became to start the class ignoring the required texts and then maybe get them if it turned out the class leaned on them heavily, though I sometimes also just tried making do without them if I felt like I was following the material fine without it. Most classes I just seemed to miss out on extra practice problems.
Though years later now, I do appreciate the ones that I do still have, which includes a physics book (though not the one in the OP). It means I can do refreshers rather than the entire class potentially being lost to my memory.
Talk to your state government about actually funding education for its people again.
That addresses the funding side, but there’s a corruption/conflict of interest side to it, too. Like when the author is also a prof or when the publishers offer kick backs to requiring the textbook.
My habit in uni became to start the class ignoring the required texts and then maybe get them if it turned out the class leaned on them heavily, though I sometimes also just tried making do without them if I felt like I was following the material fine without it. Most classes I just seemed to miss out on extra practice problems.
Though years later now, I do appreciate the ones that I do still have, which includes a physics book (though not the one in the OP). It means I can do refreshers rather than the entire class potentially being lost to my memory.