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Textbook costs getting hard to cover

Tue, 04/15/2008 - 20:23 — Bibliofuture

Marketplace on American Public media has this story: A growing chunk of college costs is the price of textbooks, on which the typical undergraduate spends $900 a year. So a group of college professors is calling for low-priced and free texts online. Congress is getting involved, too. Jill Barshay reports. Full story here.

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Wed, 04/16/2008 - 02:45 — Bibliofuture

Creative Commons and affordable textbooks

See: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7993

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