Due to various advocacy efforts, California elected officials have come to recognize textbooks as one component of the ...

“The price of textbooks has influenced my decision to take classes. When the same class is offered by three different instructors, I check which book is the cheapest, and even though the professor ...

Philip Miller learned early on that buying textbooks directly from his university bookstore was not an affordable option. “I spent way too much on textbooks my freshman year, and then I realized, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University and Amazon are collaborating on a project that could save students up to 30 percent — or $6 million — a year on textbooks, the university said Wednesday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. YinYang/Getty, Maria Kovalets / EyeEm/Getty, Tyler Le/Insider College students say they often struggle to afford to pay for ...

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 ...

Summer vacation is over, and it is time to whip out those pocketbooks once again for classroom expenses. According to an estimate by The College Board, a national nonprofit organization that connects ...

To protest textbook publishing practices, ASU's student government asked students to shred unwanted textbooks and supplements on Hayden Lawn Wednesday. "Stop the Bundling Boondoggle" was part of a ...

Prices for new college textbooks have risen steadily since the 1970s, but students have started to spend less on them. College students spent an average of $563 on books in the 2014-15 school year, 20 ...