New study reveals way to save billions on textbooks By Douglas Soule, the Daily A

U.S. PIRG researched forty schools across the United States and said "students students spent an average of $153 per course in our study." Textbook and supply costs have risen by 1,041 percent in forty years, according to the study’s analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. "Previous research has shown that 65 percent of students have skipped buying the book at some point because of cost," Vitez said during a phone conference on Friday. If these forty colleges used open educational resources, or OER, in 10 core courses, students would save $13 million in a single semester, according to the study. If every college in the United States switched 10 classes to OER, students would save $1.5 billion annually. http://www.thedaonline.com/news/new-study-reveals-way-to-save-billions-on-textbooks/article_478cd350-0479-11e8-be07-ff196ea9f095.html