Everybody wants cheap college textbooks. And it’s no wonder since the typical college student spends roughly $1,000 a Open book with textyear on textbooks.If you have to buy any of America’s most expensive textbooks, however, your budget would be decimated.
What you’re seeing here is a list of the country’s most obscenely priced college textbooks. I asked Valore Books, which has four billion books listed on its used college textbook site, to run a search to find the college textbooks with the highest prices. Here are the textbooks that made it into my College Textbook Hall of Shame: