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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ogrork the Mighty" data-source="post: 2103709" data-attributes="member: 19042"><p>I've seen it as low as 20-30 in Masters programs. I have no idea what it would be for all textbooks, and I don't think that number would be very meaningful. Earlier year courses tend to be much larger than latter years, so the run is probably significantly larger for those courses. But still, that's what?, 75-200 people (and even that's pretty large). To my knowledge, I've never heard of universities getting together to mass order textbooks. Maybe a couple profs do it, but not many. In the past 5 years I've seen a marked change in profs' attitudes as they realize students, (a) aren't willing to pay such high prices for textbooks, and (b) they aren't reading most of the material anyways, so placing a high cost on it only increases the # of students who won't buy the book. Then the bookstore gets stuck with piles of books it can't sell and the publisher won't take back.</p></blockquote><p></p>