In the academic world, professors and faculty often meet with representatives of textbook publishers. These book reps like to stop by, or send an email, every so often to ask what my colleagues and I ...

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 ...

The choice of a single textbook for one section of a course at one university might seem like a decidedly local issue. But a dispute over whether an academic department may impose such a selection on ...

Textbook prices may rise by up to 50% as publishers warn that increased NOC and license renewal fees will push costs onto ...

Students hitting the college bookstore this fall will get a stark lesson in economics before they've cracked open their first chapter. Textbook prices are soaring. Some experts say it's because ...

The mom said she believes the language insinuated that slaves came willingly. — -- A Texas mother recently sparked McGraw-Hill Education to plan revisions to a textbook that she said was ...

Despite some recent improvement in textbook market options and transparency, rising prices continue to hinder students who, in the worst scenarios, are turning down classes because the materials are ...

A new antitrust class action lawsuit alleges that textbook publishers and on-campus college chain bookstores conspired to monopolize the textbook market, forcing students to pay higher-than-market ...

We're not talking about instability in the Middle East or Ebola. We're talking textbooks. Yesterday on All Things Considered, our friends at Planet Money explored the rise in college textbook costs.

Publishers say the program saves students money. But some student advocates say colleges are often not making clear how to opt out or even how much students are saving. By Ann Carrns Colleges are ...

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