According to a 2020 survey, 65 percent of college students nationwide can’t afford their textbooks and course materials. This makes sense when you realize textbooks can cost more than $1,200 a year. For some students, costs can easily exceed even that impressive amount. Advice published for some majors in 2021 suggests students budget at least $400 a text. All these costs have real impacts. Publishers have enjoyed record profits and revenues as prices for textbooks have soared more than 400 percent the past 20 years.
