Brandan Hudgins, an engineering student at Virginia's Tidewater Community College, has used traditional textbooks and electronic books. He has paid for digital codes to get homework assignments and, ...

Annual spending on college course materials fell to a decade low last academic year, due in large part to the continuing shift toward digital materials. But a new study finds that college students ...

Affordability is a top concern for students purchasing and interacting with course materials, according to the recent Student Voice survey on academic life. Just 30 percent of the survey’s 3,004 two- ...

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 ...

Even though they are taking more courses, college students are spending less on course materials. The average college student spent $339 on course materials in the 2021-2022 academic year, or about ...