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Low-cost textbooks for college students make debut The Seattle Times The state community-college board is creating low-cost textbooks and course materials and distributing them online for free in a new program that rolled out Monday. By Katherine Long This is awesome. One of the biggest expenses for students is ... See all stories on this topic »

Students could save millions on open source texts The Seattle Times College students in Washington state will be the first beneficiaries of a state project to make inexpensive, open source textbooks available for the most popular college classes. By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP Associated Press Take your career to new ... See all stories on this topic »

Saving Textbook Receipts Could Save College Students up to $2500 Sacramento Bee The credit covers textbooks and other course material expenses – as well as tuition and fees not covered by scholarships or grants up to $2500 each year for the first four years of college. Forty percent of the credit is refundable. ... See all stories on this topic »

Should textbooks really cost $200? MSN Money In a world where you can download a best-seller for $10 to $13, the price of college textbooks seems pretty egregious. It's not unusual for a hardcover full-color textbook to cost $200 or more. Surely, it's time to fight back again greedy publishers ... See all stories on this topic »

Pearson, Knewton Team Up To Personalize College Forbes A partnership announced today between Knewton, a New York City startup, and Pearson, the world's biggest publisher of print and online textbooks, may offer some help with this challenge. Knewton, founded in 2008, has created adaptive learning software ... See all stories on this topic »

Bookstore or internet: What do students prefer? Lariat Saddleback College Whether you go online or the bookstore, most students on the poll or survey at Saddleback have said that they really need books either way in order to function in their classes. For those who to go to the bookstore to get textbooks, the college ... See all stories on this topic »

iPad textbook startup Inkling goes mainstream with cookbook launch GigaOm Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis tells me that Inkling's bread and butter will continue to be bringing interactive versions of college textbooks to the iPad, but that this is the first of a series of new titles that the company expects will bridge the gap ... See all stories on this topic »

The Torch: College Visits and Fairs Alleviate Scares my.hsj.org As the end of high school rolls around, many students trade turning the pages of their textbooks for turning the pages of college brochures to study up on some much needed information. Fortunately for Dominion students, opportunities to meet with ... See all stories on this topic »

College-tuition calculators have their drawbacks The Olympian And it's good that colleges are being required to inform families about the true cost of college - from tuition and textbooks to transportation and room and board. That's right - calculators, plural. While the Department of Education came up with a net ... See all stories on this topic »

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