George Washington U. backs away from telling faculty members they can't show students where to find less expensive versions of their textbooks.

ISU says it has saved students $90,000 in first year of open-access pilot program.

The companies that create the most important state and national exams also publish textbooks that contain many of the answers. Unfortunately, low-income school districts can’t afford to buy them.

According to a new survey conducted by Hewlett Packard, 78% of college students prefer exclusively print or a mix of print and digital textbooks.

On May 5, a number of law professors around the country received an email from publisher Wolters Kluwer regarding the 11 books in the Aspen Casebook series they assign to their students. The email informed the educators that the casebook, which combines lessons about the legal system with documents from cases in which those principles were applied or set, would now be sold as a physical copy bundled with an ebook edition. There was just one catch: once the course was over, students would be required to ship their physical copies back to the publisher, rather than hanging onto them for reference or reselling them on the used book market.

... we would not just sign petitions about rejecting one casebook publisher's scheme to overcome the used book trade .   We would take the c...

In this guest editorial, Charles Hamaker, associate university librarian for collection development and electronic resources at UNC-Charlotte, believes publishers are ready to set in motion a scheme to destroy the secondary textbook market by eliminating the competition and thus controlling prices.

The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

UPDATE 5/8/14: It appears that Aspen has changed course. After a day of fierce criticism, it now says it will give students the option of buying the physical casebook or participating in its

Earlier this week, the legal publisher AspenLaw, now part of WoltersKluwer, sent out a notice to law professors who use a popular property casebook that the casebook would now be sold in an unusual way.  But at least so far, the law professors aren't going along.

Recently I have found myself at many meetings and events (e.g., the Open Textbook summit) centered on Open Education. Despite my non-representativeness due to self-selection, I am often called upon…

Why permissions culture sucks.

Open-source textbooks are catching on in post-secondary schools looking to save students money as rising textbook costs deter them from buying course materials.

"The cost of college textbooks has skyrocketed in recent years. To students and families already struggling to afford high tuition and fee...