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Selling Out: A Textbook Example
Relegating academic ethics to the backburner, professors are receiving kickbacks from publishers in return for requiring students to purchase the latter's textbooks. Running on a tip from an executive at a textbook company, the article investigates the world of under-the-table payoffs in textbook sales in higher education. The story also cites concrete examples of cases, for example, when a certain publishing company paid professors a hefty $4,000 in turn for requiring his/her students to buy those books.
Tags: James Williams; Middle Tennessee State University; Amy Staples; North West Publishing; Francine M. Butler; Gerhard Gyrtz; Anna Bates; Aquina College; W.W.Norton; Daniel Bartell; Henry Rosovsky; Winthrop Jordan; Steve Tressler; Pearson Longmann