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Here is his emailed response to fox news. quote: that new edition is expected to cost $77.81. the question remains, how are these mistakes making their way into textbooks? >> they are selling them on the basis of how they look and, in a way, they look good. they have colored pictures all over them. they have boxes all over the place. >> reading programs are 50 to 80-million-dollar investments. so, we certainly want to get it the way the customer wants it. >> unfortunately, the customer isn't the teacher. in 30 open territory states, publishers sale textbooks to individual school districts. ano...

My textbooks are seven years old. we were scheduled for a textbook adoption. we can't have it. that's all been suspended. so the information that is coming acome coming along and the students are being tested on, we don't have to provide for them unless we scramble around to make sure we get that information for them through the internet. >> so textbooks is one. is there another example? >> another examples is one of the a.p. classes had over 50 students in it. in a classroom that was made for 35 to 40 max. the other thing that i think is heartbreaking, for teachers, who have more and more stu...