When a UCLA professor debuted the custom textbook a year ago, other faculty criticized it as a potential threat to teaching ...

The Student Book Store on E. Grand River Avenue has been a staple for students searching for textbooks since 1960. Recently, however, the store decided to no longer rent books out to students. "Our ...

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, ...

There’s no way anyone can reach their goal of attaining a college degree without doing some heavy reading—by deeply engaging with assigned texts. Those marathon cram sessions, office hours with ...

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 ...

Prices for new college textbooks have risen steadily since the 1970s, but students have started to spend less on them. College students spent an average of $563 on books in the 2014-15 school year, 20 ...

A UC Davis Stores employee — who has helped fellow students save almost $2 million through textbook rentals — is stacking our Aggie Pride sky high. Senior Andrew Musca of Ripon, California, is being ...

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 ...