As the fall semester ramps up, the nation’s college students are preparing to make a dreaded purchase: course textbooks, which can cost students hundreds of dollars per year. For years, textbook ...

Depending on your major, your average book expense may be much more or much less than $655. Hefty textbooks used in math and science classes, for instance, tend to be more expensive than novels needed ...

College students say they often struggle to afford to pay for textbooks. Two-thirds of students reported skipping buying course materials because they were too expensive. Some members of Congress have ...

Students would no longer need to buy expensive texts or carry heavy books under an option to get free textbooks.

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Outrage from legions of Beyoncé and Taylor Swift fans about hidden concert ticket fees helped spark a national conversation around “junk fees." It has even filtered into the 2024 election cycle. The ...

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 ...

As if attending college isn’t already expensive enough, the cost of textbooks has been rising drastically in recent years. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from 2006 to 2016, university ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to two new studies, college students spent an average of $500 on textbooks and course materials during the 2017-2018 academic year. This new data, from the ...

A national student activist organization stepped up its criticism of college textbook publishers Tuesday, asserting that the industry imposed exorbitant wholesale price increases totaling 62% over the ...

Students are spending less across the board, regardless of whether they're paying for print or ebooks, rented or new. New data shows that students have spent an average of 23% less on college ...