, The Washington Post; Textbooks are pricey. So students are getting creative.
"The exact toll taken by college textbook costs is in dispute. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
shows that even as tuition has risen, no cost of college life has
increased faster than textbooks. The bureau found that book prices rose
88 percent between 2006 and 2016, and the College Board — which
administers the SAT exam — reported that students budget more than $1,200 each year for textbooks and other class supplies, including technology.
Student
Monitor, a New Jersey research firm, has published a much lower
estimate for student textbook costs — about $500 annually — and said
student spending has been on the decline...
George Mason and hundreds of campuses throughout the country — including
American University and the University of Maryland — are slowly
adopting open educational resources, materials that are written by
academics for the public domain and available at no cost to students and
professors."
