With college textbook prices rising 800 percent in the past decades, 65 percent of students have decided to cut college costs and illegally download books, according to a Government Accountability Office survey.
TextbookNova and the Pirate Bay are some of the most popular websites for college students to download books, with a correlation between the number of downloads and the price of the book.
Read the full article on the International Business Times.
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