Despite growing online markets for discounted books, the average cost of college textbooks has risen four times faster than the rate of inflation over the past 10 years. That has caused 65 percent of ...

College students say they often struggle to afford to pay for textbooks. Two-thirds of students reported skipping buying course materials because they were too expensive. Some members of Congress have ...

At Cal State Stanislaus, computer science faculty maintain a small library of textbooks so students don’t have to buy them. Chico State history professor Susan Green invites former students to sell ...

Ohio State University is actively working to reduce the cost of textbooks for its students by implementing various programs and resources, such as digital options and grants, saving students ...

College has become increasingly expensive over the years, and the problem only seems to get worse. Not only do students have to cover the growing cost of tuition and fees, but then there are personal ...

Another attack on overpriced college textbooks has come, this time from 38 community colleges developing curricula that use open education resources. (Hat tip to Mark Perry of Carpe Diem Blog.) Think ...

For years, textbook prices have burdened students already struggling with loans and sky-high tuition costs. Now Wall Street is taking over the market, tightening its grip on a staple campus ...

The cost of textbooks today is unmanageable for many college students. Faculty members in some disciplines can assuage this problem to a great degree by allowing students to use the two previous ...

Tuition isn’t the only outrageous cost that college students are facing this month. The average student spends $655 each year on textbooks, according to the National Association of College Stores, ...

In September of 2014, University of Vermont students Ben Kaufman and Javier Garcia-Bernardo saw a pile of used textbooks marked “free” outside a faculty member's office and wondered what they could do ...