WI and AHC: successful student activism on high textbook prices in 1985?

I pick 1985 as it's thirty years ago. And I'm mainly familiar with American colleges, but pick universities anywhere in the world.

(1) How do the students do it? You can't really do a boycott because too much is at stake each semester, but maybe there's a way or another better method.

(2) And for, say, young energetic professors, with this possible avenue of extra income turned down, what other avenues are pursued? And overall, does this loosen up academia or further tighten it up in some ways?
 
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Let's say the student activists are going to look at how much money goes to professors and how much to the publishers.

But they realize the need to do something in the meantime. So, they decide to buy one textbook for every three students who want to participate. And let's say for a class like calculus, they're going to have a morning, evening, and afternoon crew where they meet at a certain place in the library.

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As far as the professors, I think some American universities have this nasty contract which they require professors to sign to the effect that any learning material the professor puts online is considered to be owned by the university. So, with less textbooks being sold, this area will become more highly contested.
 
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