The U.S. House of Representatives has just passed a very important piece of legislation to help bring transparency to the textbook market. read more at Stingy Scholar blog.
The College Opportunity and Affordability Act (H.R. 4137) includes three critical provisions to help students deal with textbook prices.
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First, it requires publishers to tell faculty the price of textbooks when professors are choosing books for their classes.
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Second, the bill makes publishers sell the parts of bundled textbooks separately.
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Third, the bill encourages colleges to give students course booklists the semester before the class starts so they can shop around and look for better deals.