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There are a lot more undergrads that want basic textbooks than there are people who want to read research papers.
Undergrads typically need the physical textbook, not just an electronic one, for example to use in an open book test. (Though I was mainly trying to smuggle in a mention of a pirate site that does cater to autodidacts ...)
I have a Bachelor's degree and I've never either had an open-book test in college, nor heard of anyone having one. (Though we did have a couple of "you may bring one A4 worth of your own notes" tests.)
It depends on where you are, among other things. In Italy, about 90% of the tests I've taken in university were open-book, but I spent one year as an exchange student in Ireland and none of the tests I took there were open-book.
While I've never finished a Bachelor's, I did spend about two years at a university and open-book exams weren't unheard of at all.
Nearly every upper division physics final at UCI.
Sorry, nearly every one of them fell into which category? I can parse your sentence as being open to textbooks, being not at all open or allowing you to bring your small bit of notes.
Did any of them restrict the edition of the textbook?
Instructors on my university had no problem with people bringing copied books to open-book exams.
In most tests in my university, people are allowed to bring pretty much everything they want except other people and devices to communicate with the outside world.
Many classes don't have open book tests. This is especially true outside the sciences. The market is still much much larger than that for research papers.