Professors, departments should find ways to turn monopolistic course-reader system around

Let me get this straight.
I, along with every other student here, am paying more than $7,000 in student fees and more than $12,000 to live in the residence halls. And now you want me to pay $150 for a course reader that is essentially a lot of copied pages held together by semi-decent binding. And I can’t even return it at the end of the quarter and get a little money back?