Instead of using student access to affordable resources as a justification (by the way, where was that over the past 6 years that I've been a competing rep watching your prices routinely top $200-$300 per text...), maybe you should own up to the fact that perhaps the author contracts were bad business deals. Cengage willingly increased the prices of their texts to hit short-term financial goals (as did others in the market who are publicly-traded or VC-backed). Once the market calls you on the price of your texts and you opt to go to more affordable models of delivery and your contractual agreements with authors become less and less sustainable, you should have either transparently renegotiated or honored the original terms. Don't use students a pawn to cover for your bad business deals. This is a company that's already go into bankruptcy once before...we'll see if history repeats itself with the McCengage merger.