The high cost of textbooks has become a serious obstacle to the affordability
of a college education. The textbook market is rigged so that publishers can
generate huge profits and engage in bad practices at students’ expense.
Fortunately, we have solutions to this problem, most notably in the form of “open
textbooks”—high-quality books that are available online for free or for a very low cost
in print. With solutions like these, we can break the publishers’ stranglehold on the
market and help make higher education more accessible to everyone.
These changes won’t happen on their own—students will need to work for them. This
toolkit provides the resources that student governments and state student associations
need in order to bring open textbooks to their campuses and save students money
- Subject:
- Education
- Higher Education
- Material Type:
- Primary Source
- Author:
- Student Government Resource Center
- Date Added:
- 09/14/2021