Would the proposed Affordable College Textbook Act cut costs for students? | Cost of College

"With the costs of college textbooks rising about three times the rate of inflation, students should be happy to see any change that would save them money in this expenditure.  Democratic Senators Al Franken of Minnesota and Dick Durbin of Illinois have introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act, a bill that 'would set up a competitive grant program to support pilot programs at colleges and universities ‘that expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students’'.  Open-source textbooks are already in limited use, bolstered by programs like Rice University’s OpenStax that offer a selection of free texts for a limited number of introductory courses.  The Gates Foundation is one of its financial supporters ..."