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
I can't find an OER text I like for teaching HTML5/CSS, but I found a text the students can buy used from Amazon for less than $20 (including shipping). A prior instructor was using two publisher textbooks that students had to pay over $250 for..