Textbooks: The Real Money Maker for Universities

With the winter term dooming closer and closer I ventured onto Portland State's bookstore website to inquire about the massive debt I was eventually going to acquire for some measly paperback book. My whopping total, roughly 250 dollars! That has to be a million percent mark up from the whole dollar that it took to make the damn book. I don't know how it is plausible that anyone could charge that much for textbooks. The over pricing of textbooks reminds me of going to the cinemas. You pay an expensive ten or twelve dollars to see a movie, much like paying tuition ( the meat of the purchase). But of course their is always the extras, you have to have drinks, popcorn, and candy (the textbooks). The only problem is these extras are WAY to overpriced. This is where these two institutions are making their money. A fountain drink for 7 bucks or a textbook for 150 dollars, absolutely ridiculous!