On the fat thieves of the publishing industry

There's a cute group called "Join if you think textbooks are overpriced" on Facebook. Just cause I think I'm so clever I'm reposting my comment from there here.

Good job joining this group everybody! Now go flip some hamburgers so that you can afford the book for your "Culture of Protest" course.

Wait, maybe that money could be better spent on the book for the course "The Merits of Idealism"! Because of course, just by voting, starting up a Facebook group and maybe wearing a T-shirt we will be able to control an uber-profitable textbook publishing industry!

Face it, people, it's just empty words. If you want to make a difference, go scan your copy of "Nursing: Advanced Applications" and post it on demonoid.com or thepiratebay.com. Or maybe go talk to your prof and ask them to release their course notes under Creative Commons.

And by the way, guess where you can already download Stewart's "Calculus" and a bunch of other useful books?

And for those people who wrote that $900 will get you X liters of beer, I think the publishing houses have a valid argument when they say you also owe them your liver.