Archive for the 'Textbooks' Category
Textbooks Are Expensive
August 30th, 2007Michelle Slatalla - “With this year’s news about the ways some unscrupulous colleges make an extra buck off students’ naïveté — from loan officers who accepted lenders’ kickbacks to schools that got cash incentives to steer students to expensive study-abroad programs — I felt it was expedient to warn my daughter about a big expense [...]
TextBookFlix
August 13th, 2007Webware - “Here’s a concept for textbooks that’s almost as cool as library checkouts.”
Expensive Textbooks
August 11th, 2007AP - “To hold costs down, students who once shopped for texts only at the campus bookstore are casting wider nets, searching for new and used textbooks at online bookstores, seeking out student book exchanges, investing in e-books, sharing books with fellow students - even borrowing books from public libraries.”
Outdated Textbooks
August 9th, 2007Book Patrol - “If the open access movement or the digitization crowd ever needed something to rally around the textbook trade would be the place to start.”