William & Mary Libraries has launched a Textbook Affordability Initiative on campus to address the rising costs of textbooks. “The cost of textbooks has increased more than 400 percent in the last 20 years,” said Asia Randolph, W&M Libraries graduate assistant. “It’s rising at a much faster rate than inflation. For students who have to buy 4, 5 or 6 textbooks each semester – sometimes more – it becomes too much for their budgets to handle.”
https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2020/shouldering-the-heavy-burden-of-textbooks.php
