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Especially when it comes to an engineering textbook. While my university's selected electrical engineering books were all sub-$500 (usually in the $300 range), most of the "core" civil engineering books were at or over $1,000. Just insane for anyone who was not on scholarship. (And this was 20 years ago!)

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Surely with prices going that high the students could pool their resources to buy one copy and have it professionally scanned? It's only $1 per 100 pages.

Many students do that, but print shops might refuse to do the copying if they notice it's a textbook. At least, that's my experience in Australia.

That's the kind of system draconian copyright laws create.

One only needs a single shop that would agree. And at those prices the shop can be in any country.

There could not be a more literal copyright violation than what you described.

So?

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