How college students can get free textbooks | BT

ab1630's bookmarks 2018-01-27

Summary:

"Students and parents complain about tuition being high, but what’s even more astronomical is the price of textbooks. Since 1977, the cost of textbooks has gone up over one thousand percent and students are fed up. Matthew Charnin is a third-year student at the University of Colorado and says he pays about $1,200 a year on textbooks. Charnin says, “It’s detrimental to students’ success. It needs to change.” The question is, why have prices gone up? Kaitlyn Vitez, a higher education advocate, says one of the reasons is because of what’s called an access code...."

Link:

http://buzzteller.com/how-college-students-can-get-free-textbooks/

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oa.new oa.oer oa.textbooks oa.prices oa.students oa.hei oa.usa oa.lay oa.books

Date tagged:

01/27/2018, 14:58

Date published:

01/27/2018, 10:03