EDITORIAL: Increase Textbook Transparency - the Hoya

In recent years, textbook prices have increased to exorbitant rates, crippling student access to necessary course materials. Textbook prices rose by 82 percent between 2002 and 2012, while consumer prices increased by only 28 percent in the same time period, according to a report conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. As textbook prices increase on a national level, Georgetown is also complicit in selling expensive textbooks at the university bookstore. http://www.thehoya.com/editorial-increase-textbook-transparency/