In the article “Course Requirement: Extortion,” the author, Granof Michael, explains his ideas about, why textbooks are getting expensive nowadays. First of all, he points out two examples which explain why textbook are so expensive and afterward he also gives solution for that problem. The First reason explains used textbook are difficult to resell and make a profit that 's why publisher sells new copies of textbook expensive to make their profit. The second reason behind expensive textbook is because new textbook comes with extra materials like CDs, an online workbook, and because of that most of the time, students choose to buy new textbook instead of use one. The solution that he come up with was an ebook. He explained his idea saying that