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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A growing array of online textbook retailers, digital platforms, and AI-driven study tools is transforming how students source and use academic materials. Price comparison sites like CampusBooks and ...

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 ...

Another attack on overpriced college textbooks has come, this time from 38 community colleges developing curricula that use open education resources. (Hat tip to Mark Perry of Carpe Diem Blog.) Think ...

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 ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has revised a textbook for a required fitness course that called cancer “a disease of choice” and included a theory asserting Holocaust ...

When Maddy Meaux, a sophomore at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, signed up for an introductory accounting course, she noticed something extraordinary. The online textbook for the course was ...