When a UCLA professor debuted the custom textbook a year ago, other faculty criticized it as a potential threat to teaching ...

Some textbook publishers have come out with a software application that would make its 7,000 titles available on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. An e-textbook would cost half the amount of the actual ...

There’s so much to understand in science textbooks: thousands of new phrases and terms, concepts and processes. A lot of times these educational tools leave more questions than answers. So Vulcan ...

BYU student Karl Magwood browses textbooks in the BYU bookstore and searches for an option best suited to his needs. (Hannah Miner) The pressure to work for a successful college education while ...

In the rapidly evolving college textbook market, one of the nation's largest textbook publishers, Cengage Learning, announced Thursday that it would start renting books to students this year, at 40 ...

Despite growing online markets for discounted books, the average cost of college textbooks has risen four times faster than the rate of inflation over the past 10 years. That has caused 65 percent of ...

These young scholars — 75 undergraduate students in all — made history by spending the semester authoring their own textbook. Small groups of graduate students have authored content before. But never ...

Philip Miller learned early on that buying textbooks directly from his university bookstore was not an affordable option. “I spent way too much on textbooks my freshman year, and then I realized, ...

The Student Book Store on E. Grand River Avenue has been a staple for students searching for textbooks since 1960. Recently, however, the store decided to no longer rent books out to students. "Our ...

For the second year in a row, college students spent less on textbooks and other course materials. The findings, from two new reports, link the spending drop to a rise in the use of rented materials ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students can spend hundreds of dollars on books. Tuition isn't the only higher education expense that makes paying for college ...