{"id":526,"date":"2008-02-18T15:13:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T20:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uconnstamfordlibrary.wordpress.com\/?p=526"},"modified":"2008-02-18T15:13:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T20:13:44","slug":"affordable-textbooks-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/2008\/02\/18\/affordable-textbooks-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable textbooks on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House of Representatives has just passed a very important piece of legislation to help bring transparency to the textbook market. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stingyscholar.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/house-passes-legislation-to-make.html\" title=\"Stingy Scholar Blog\">read more at Stingy Scholar blog.<\/a><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top:0;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0;margin-right:0\"><span style=\"font:100% Verdana\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/edlabor.house.gov\/micro\/coaa.shtml\"><u><font color=\"#bb3300\">The College Opportunity and Affordability Act<\/font><\/u><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font:100% Verdana\"> (H.R. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:h.r.04137:\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><u>4137<\/u><\/span><\/a>) includes three critical provisions to help students deal with textbook prices. <\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"margin-top:0;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0;margin-right:0\"><span style=\"font:100% Verdana\"><em>First,<\/em> it requires publishers to tell faculty the price of textbooks when professors are choosing books for their classes. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<p><span style=\"font:100% Verdana\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><\/p>\n<li>\n<div style=\"margin-top:0;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0;margin-right:0\"><span style=\"font:100% Verdana\"><em>Second,<\/em> the bill makes publishers sell the parts of bundled textbooks separately. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<li>\n<div style=\"margin-top:0;font-weight:bold;margin-left:0;margin-right:0\"><span style=\"font:100% Verdana\"><em>Third,<\/em> 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. <\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/2008\/02\/18\/affordable-textbooks-on-the-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL2n-8u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}