I'll have to pay 130 dollars for a single textbook for a macroeconomics college course.
That's a bit outrageous. Young people are the poorest group in the United States. With all these problems how can publishers get away with asking so much money simply for putting other people's work together in a textbook.
The cost shouldn't be anywhere near that.
I think its the publishers who get paid for all the work done by authors.
Look at sites like IEEE. 30$ for one article, which is not paid to the author. Gods must be crazy.