Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for July 13, 2024

They will now be known as ‘bookies’…..

that or extended warranties

If you really want lucrative, get into patented pharmaceuticals. Or law, where you don’t even have to have a product.

Text book racketeers. Sell at $175, buy back at $5.

Our English Department doesn’t use textbooks any more. I get almost all my teaching materials off the Internet through public domain.

Or how about doing the old fashioned way running for office to sell your vote.

Take the cannoli leave the Physics text.

My late father was a University chemistry professor. He told me that before the new school year started. Many Book reps would show up and try to get the professors to choose their books for the coming year. Dad would try to get the cheapest book that would cover the course. But a few times the book that he saw, (which were softback text books), turned into a heavy-hardback tome that would cost the student a hundred dollars or more, (and this was back in the 60s and 70s when the dollar was worth a lot more).

So do the math. A freshman chemistry class can have over a thousand students at a State University. The collage text book business is a racket.

textbooks are an offer your can’t refuse

Ain’t that the truth

Or printer ink.

Books were expensive when I was in college 45 years ago, so I bought used books which were in good condition. I shudder to think of what they cost now.

Had one professor who insisted we have a copy of her textbook for the class. She was one of the authors.

The best extended warranty I’ve found, lasts forever, and is free for just believing in it.

Yeah, just think ‘for $150.00 a month we’ll protect your car until you miss a payment then no protection at all for your car OR you ! ! ! !

Elsevier is evil.

Plenty of money in high school textbooks, too.

or home warranties, pretty sure that’s a shot at our president

Why? College kids can’t read.

This is mostly out of date. The college textbook printers got too greedy and now most textbooks are digital and free to use.

They’ll be putting up a candidate for the presidency. Why not?

This could be true.

Either way, someone ends up dead.

Health insurance… no, wait……

Just like Republicans . . .

They would muscle into medical insurance but even the Mafia has standards.

I didn’t receive a full scholarship for college. What I did receive was a scholarship that covered the cost of my textbooks. I learned to appreciate the scholarship a lot more when I saw those textbook prices.