It should be illegal for professors to make their own textbooks required for courses they teach.

Big part of a teachers job is to prepare lesson plans and provide extra materials (or point to them, like books on general knowledge). Proffessors are already paid for doing it - publishing their already paid for work as a book and profiting out of it by forcing students to buy it is ethical bottom. I don't understand how anybody can respect those people and why the employer allows that.

If I did something on my company time, it is my company that profits from it. Imagine working as a furniture designer, making your private designs on company time and selling them to company customers behind company's back. Fired immediately and lawsuit incoming.

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