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 ...

Founder Rich Baraniuk in the OpenStax office. HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. Or at least, edited. Perched in ...

ATHENS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio University will offer instructors $1,000 to lower textbook costs for students. This month, Ohio University Libraries debuted its Zero Cost Textbook program, a new training ...

Every college graduate knows about the games schools and textbook publishers play when it comes to revenue. The average textbook company comes out with a new version of each of their books every few ...

British-owned education publishing company Pearson announced the creation of a new platform-- Pearson+ -- that will attempt to offer students more financially flexible ways to access college textbooks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students can spend hundreds of dollars on books. Tuition isn't the only higher education expense that makes paying for college ...

Textbook sales are falling at many university presses, a trend that has accelerated in the past couple of months. That’s the word from press directors anxious about the decline but unsure what’s ...

Northwest Missouri State University makes an ambitious effort to replace its hefty print textbooks with electronic courseware. For years, Northwest Missouri State University took an innovative ...

Publishers say the program saves students money. But some student advocates say colleges are often not making clear how to opt out or even how much students are saving. By Ann Carrns Colleges are ...