“Inclusive access,” a textbook-sales model touted as a way to ensure that students without deep pockets can afford books, doesn’t always deliver on that promise, according to a leading open-access ...

There’s a new battle raging in the long-running war over costly college textbooks, one that may strike a serious blow to the textbook subscription programs promoted by publishers and criticized by ...

For years, people have complained about the cost of college textbooks. And science textbooks are some of the most expensive. The list prices for hardcover versions from sellers like Amazon are ...

The story of one University of Maine student’s quest for a reasonably priced textbook reveals just how complicated course materials have become as the textbook industry makes its awkward transition ...

As an undergraduate student majoring in chemistry and biochemistry, I spent a lot of money on science textbooks. When classes ended, I kept all of my books instead of selling them back for pennies on ...

Roxanne Missingham works for the Australian National University. For university students, textbooks have been both a saviour and a bane. Having most of the essential readings in a single volume ...

The textbook that Delmar Larsen assigned his students was full of errors, and he knew it. The professor felt like an accomplice. It was 2007, and Larsen was teaching a physical chemistry for life ...