{"id":224,"date":"2013-03-25T23:19:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T22:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2013-03-25T23:19:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T22:19:55","slug":"textbook-prices-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/2013\/03\/25\/textbook-prices-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Textbook Prices Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Huffington Post was <a title=\"College Book Prices\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/01\/04\/college-textbook-prices-increase_n_2409153.html\" target=\"_blank\">running an article<\/a> in which they noted that the textbook price hike since 1978 by far outperforms the increase in consumer prices: Whereas the former stands at 812 percent, the consumer price index increased about 250 percent in the same period. New home prices are up 325 percent. Here&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"The Textbook Bubble\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aei-ideas.org\/2012\/12\/the-college-textbook-bubble-and-how-the-open-educational-resources-movement-is-going-up-against-the-textbook-cartel\/\" target=\"_blank\">another article<\/a> with the same numbers. In short, something is majorly wrong with the academic publishing system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huffington Post was running an article in which they noted that the textbook price hike since 1978 by far outperforms the increase in consumer prices: Whereas the former stands at 812 percent, the consumer price index increased about 250 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/2013\/03\/25\/textbook-prices-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}