Textbook Affordability Infographic

The Decline of the Textbook Empire Infographic When the cost of print textbooks has risen three times faster than the rate of inflation, the fix is in: Something’s rotten in the state of educational publishing. And students, who shoulder the burden of rising textbook prices, have decided they aren’t going to take it anymore: 65 […]

The continuing rise in textbook prices has become a major issue in higher education: according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), textbook prices have risen at an average rate of six percent per year between 2002 and 2012. This is an astonishing rate – considering consumer prices in general rose only two percent over […]