Due to various advocacy efforts, California elected officials have come to recognize textbooks as one component of the ...

Philip Miller learned early on that buying textbooks directly from his university bookstore was not an affordable option. “I spent way too much on textbooks my freshman year, and then I realized, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students can spend hundreds of dollars on books. Tuition isn't the only higher education expense that makes paying for college ...

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 ...

Summer vacation is over, and it is time to whip out those pocketbooks once again for classroom expenses. According to an estimate by The College Board, a national nonprofit organization that connects ...

For the second year in a row, college students spent less on textbooks and other course materials. The findings, from two new reports, link the spending drop to a rise in the use of rented materials ...