Campus / Opinion  Where does my textbook money go?  By Michelle
Bean Staff Writer  Over the four years required to complete a
degree most students will spend around $6,000 on textbooks
alone.  “I was very surprised that I had to set aside $500 for
books each quarter,” said sophomore Rommel Gotico regarding his
experience in buying textbooks.  Gotico’s sentiment is a
practically universal plight across not only this campus but
also thousands of schools worldwide. We know textbooks are too
expensive; the question is why?  I set out to discover the
source of the inflated cost of textbooks, and I was shocked by
how difficult it was to get answers. No one seemed to want to
talk about where the money goes. Calling several customer help
lines of various publishers was all but fruitless. I was
transferred from extension to extension by confused customer
service representatives who seemed totally confused by my simple
question: why?  With publishers unwilling or unable to provide
answers, I turned to the next step in