Editing Textbook (section)

===Price disclosure===
Given that the problem of high textbook prices is linked to the "broken" economics of the market, requiring publishers to disclose textbook prices to faculty is a solution pursued by a number of legislatures.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Elia Powers |title=Textbook Battle's New Frontier |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/13/textbooks |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821104447/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/13/textbooks |archive-date=21 August 2016 |access-date=23 April 2016}}</ref> By inserting price into sales interactions, this regulation will supposedly make the economic forces operate more normally.

No data suggests that this is in fact true.  However, The Student PIRGs have found that publishers actively withhold pricing information from faculty, making it difficult to obtain.  Their most recent study found that 77% of faculty say publisher sales representatives do not volunteer prices, and only 40% got an answer when they directly asked.  Furthermore, the study found that 23% of faculty rated publisher websites as "informative and easy to use" and less than half said they typically listed the price.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>

The US Congress passed a law in the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act that would require price disclosure.<ref name="ReferenceB" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Congress.gov – Library of Congress |url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.04137 |access-date=8 May 2018 |website=thomas.loc.gov}}{{Dead link|date=August 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jason |date=11 February 2008 |title=The Stingy Scholar |url=http://stingyscholar.blogspot.com/2008/02/house-passes-legislation-to-make.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504130651/http://stingyscholar.blogspot.com/2008/02/house-passes-legislation-to-make.html |archive-date=4 May 2016 |access-date=23 April 2016}}</ref> Legislation requiring price disclosure has passed in Connecticut,<ref>{{Cite web |title=AN ACT CONCERNING TEXTBOOK AFFORDABILITY. |url=http://www.cga.ct.gov/2006/ACT/PA/2006PA-00103-R00HB-05527-PA.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311060930/https://www.cga.ct.gov/2006/ACT/PA/2006PA-00103-R00HB-05527-PA.htm |archive-date=11 March 2016 |access-date=23 April 2016}}</ref> Washington,<ref name="leg.state.or.us">{{Cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/sb0300.dir/sb0365.b.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080910041933/http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/sb0300.dir/sb0365.b.pdf |archive-date=10 September 2008 |access-date=24 March 2008}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceB"/> Minnesota,<ref>{{Cite web |title=HF 1063 |url=http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/revisor/pages/search_status/status_detail.php?b=House&f=HF1063&ssn=0&y=2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224095318/http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/revisor/pages/search_status/status_detail.php?b=House&f=HF1063&ssn=0&y=2007 |archive-date=24 December 2012 |access-date=23 April 2016}}</ref> Oregon,<ref name="leg.state.or.us" /> Arizona,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Documents For Bill |url=http://www.azleg.gov/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1175 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111538/http://www.azleg.gov/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1175 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=23 April 2016}}</ref> Oklahoma,<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 November 2015 |title=Tutoring Rates in Oklahoma: An Analysis of over 34,000 Private Tutors |url=https://ateamtutors.com/tutoring-study-in-britain-and-ireland/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721220424/https://ateamtutors.com/tutoring-study-in-britain-and-ireland/ |archive-date=21 July 2020 |access-date=14 June 2016 |website=ateamtutors.com}}</ref> and Colorado.<ref name="leg.state.co.us" /> Publishers are currently supporting price disclosure mandates, though they insist that the "suggested retail price"<ref>{{Cite web |title=House Bill Proposes Disclosure Rules to Control Textbook Prices |url=http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/01/1465n.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216021300/http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/01/1465n.htm |archive-date=16 February 2008 |access-date=23 April 2016 |website=The Chronicle of Higher Education}}</ref> should be disclosed, rather than the actual price the publisher would get for the book.