“Pay Nothing? Easier Said Than Done” (The Chronicle, January 27) points out that producing free textbooks has some obstacles: money pressures, slow adoption by instructors, and quality concerns. To ...

Now that you’re in college, you’re going to witness how fast higher education cleans out your wallet, forcing you to live on a budget. Why go beyond your limit when you could own your textbooks for a ...

BookRenter is a solution to the problem of buying books at inflated prices and selling them back for pennies on the dollar to your college books store. Rent your books for a fraction of the retail ...

As if attending college isn’t already expensive enough, the cost of textbooks has been rising drastically in recent years. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from 2006 to 2016, university ...

Your professors will probably be podcasting, and you may listen on your iPhone while reading a novel and checking Facebook. But one mode of information exchange on campus has remained a constant: the ...

Now that it's the second week of classes and you (hopefully) have your schedules figured out, the next item on many of your agendas is finding some way to get the necessary textbooks (that, or how to ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Just as senior citizens have saved money by buying prescription drugs from outside the United ...

As another school year is about to begin, students are searching for ways to save money. One of the biggest expenses for college students are textbooks, but there are numerous websites that strive to ...

Pricey college textbooks add hundreds of dollars to hefty higher education costs each semester. But a Rice University initiative, now in its fifth year, is chipping away at those expenses – and its ...

After thousands of dollars are added up for every semester of college, one of the most stressful afterthoughts is the bane of every student’s existence: usually heavy, often useless and always ...

After thousands of dollars are added up for every semester of college, one of the most stressful afterthoughts is the bane of every student’s existence: usually-heavy, often-useless and ...