The Rising Cost of Textbooks Is Feverish--Student PIRGs Say Open Educational Resources Has the Cure | Education 2.0 & 3.0 | Scoop.it
Student PIRGs’ 2014 study “Fixing the Broken Textbook Market” found that 65% of students do not buy all the educational material required by professors for reasons of cost. In a 2016, they discovered that $3 billion in financial aid had gone toward paying for textbooks in that year.

Via Becky Roehrs