MassPIRG report urges expanded use of open-source textbooks | GazetteNet.com

"Four years into a campus initiative aimed at reducing textbook costs by making course material available for free online, University of Massachusetts students and staff are pushing for more faculty to use this option. While the Open Source Initiative has already saved an estimated $1 million in textbook expenses for UMass students since it started in spring semester 2011, a report titled 'Open Textbooks: The Billion Dollar Solution' issued Wednesday by the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group encourages student leaders to fight for expansion of the program ..."