Textbooks should be free!

I believe textbooks should be free. Students already pay enough for the classes they need for their degree and tuition for college, they shouldn't have to pay extra for books. Textbooks should be provided and included for the students taking that class instead of having to rent or purchase the textbooks themselves. It doesn't really make sense to me even when a lot of people tell me that there's a price to pay at everything although I know that textbooks sure isn't one of them. I find it unfair having to buy or rent textbooks that are used only for a particular class and later on in life would most likely not be used again.

Textbooks are expensive. Purchasing textbooks for a class just seems odd to me. I never knew how pricey textbooks were until college. This makes me thought back about high school of how textbooks were given to us to use without charge. Textbooks in high school were reused over and over again until someone torn it apart, only then would that person have to buy a new one to replace it. If only this rule applied to college, college students would be more stress-free and focus more on their degree rather than worrying more about being in debt after college.

I don't get why textbooks are still so expensive even when it's just rental or used. I feel as though college are making more profit selling and renting textbooks than anything else. Book rentals itself is profitable because the school reuse and let students rent the same textbook again for almost as much as the original price of the book. I say it pretty ridiculous no matter how someone looks at it. Although I'm not going to lie it's a pretty genius idea because college students only need the textbook to pass the class and won't bother to touch it afterwards. Also like many college students, they want to save as much money yet finding the most convenient way to get by with college.

College is truly a hard and difficult time in a person's life and that's why I believe that textbook should be free. Another reason why I believe textbooks should be free is because students already paid for the class they're attending, so the school should provide the materials needed for the students in that class. It'll only make sense if this was the case because you took the class to get the degree you want and learn from the instructor. No one needs to buy textbooks when the instructor hardly uses it or is teaching straight from the textbook. Anyone could learn the materials themselves that way. These are the reasons why I believe textbooks should be free.