New Federal Textbook Law

The Daily Cardinal reports on the galloping federal government:

A federal textbook law goes into effect tomorrow to help students find affordable textbooks and manage their textbook expenses.

With annual expenditures on textbooks approaching $700 to $1000 per student, the act ensures the disclosure of information to professors, bookstores and students that will help keep textbook prices down, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Such information includes the price and a description of the content revisions made between the current edition and previous edition. This ensures professors know how much students are spending and if an upgrade to a new edition is necessary.

In addition, the school must provide institution-affiliated bookstores with the maximum student enrollment for a course to prevent over-purchasing textbooks, which causes higher prices.

Former President George W. Bush signed the textbook legislation into law in 2008.

You might ask where does Congress get authority to make laws concerning textbook revisions? You want lower textbook prices: eliminate the federal government from education. That's a good way to lower the demand for textbooks.