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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Rutgers University has ...

Students have long been screwed by textbooks’ high prices, especially when they’re forced to buy online passcodes to access coursework. Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) The heart of the argument for ...

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 ...