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A long-term study of 300,000 workers who have mental health parity in their insurance plan has found that equal coverage for mental illness and physical illness does not increase employer expenses. The researchers hope this will encourage private firms to offer parity as well now that they need not fear escalating costs. How reassuring. If […]

If you are a student or teacher of literature, you may have been assigned the classic (and turgid) short story, “The Death of Ivan Illyich” by Leo Tolstoy. Well, the first person who answers the following question will get a nice first edition copy of a novel by a famous American writer–ca. 1875-1955–(this is more […]

If you’ve ever bought food at an Interstate Highway emporium or at a ballgame, you probably got annoyed at the prices, but you paid anyway because the place has a monopoly on food.  Textbook publishers have a captive audience as well: if you get a textbook assigned for a course, what is your alternative.  In […]

While CalPIRG published its 26-page report castigating the textbook industry, the American Publishing Association counterpunched with a press release from its president, Pat. Schroeder, (the former Congressperson). According to the APA, college faculty are quite pleased with the new spate of textbooks and don’t have any qualms about high prices, new editions that are the […]

College students have been griping (and rightly so) about the high cost of textbooks, and the potentially devious ways a publisher can make a textbook go out-of-date and out-of-print by producing a new, ‘updated’ version. Having been a full-time English professor, and having taught at both 2-year and 4-year colleges, and having taught students whose […]

If you don’t know, and you are currently in college, you are in trouble big time