Witnesses at Congressional Hearing Accuse Textbook Publishers of Price Gouging

By THOMAS BARTLETT

Washington

Textbooks are expensive because publishers inflate prices by adding "bells and whistles" that professors don't want and students don't use, an official of a student-advocacy group told the U.S. House of Representatives' principal subcommittee on higher education on Tuesday.

"The...

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