Math textbook author made $26 million

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And if you thought textbooks were an overpriced scam before......now you have confirmation.

Actually, he has sold many millions of textbooks since the 1970's, so I'm going to guess that he has written a very good textbook (or multiple ones).  If you look at last year alone, he sold 500k books, and made $52 off of each book, giving him $26M.  I don't think that's a ripoff at all.

He himself earned $26 million from the textbooks. This doesn't include the fortune that the publishers made which was well over $26 million. 426 million over 50 years us still over half a million bucks a year. The price of textbooks is a massive problem and has been for decades. This is 1 author. He's far from the only one cashing in on students who are, in general, going into debt to buy said overpriced books.

I'm going to say that it's not the author's but the publishers that are overpricing the books.  The author spends the time to write a textbook, and from what I've seen, this particular author has written a very good one.  He DESERVES to make money off of his books.  Should he just give away his labor?  I think not.

The publishers are the ones that price them (and overprice them), not the authors.