Ordering textbooks from publishers must be a more complicated process than I would imagine, since our bookstore usually starts asking in April for our fall-semester orders. I know many faculty members ...

In the academic world, professors and faculty often meet with representatives of textbook publishers. These book reps like to stop by, or send an email, every so often to ask what my colleagues and I ...

Welcome to today’s online chat about the benefits and drawbacks of electronic textbooks. In what ways are digital textbooks more effective learning tools than their print counterparts? Conversely, ...

Many college students are worried about the financial impact of higher education, and course materials are one key example. A 2023 survey of Pennsylvania college students found 71 percent of students ...

After settling into his dorm this past fall, John McGrath, a freshman at Rutgers University, took the campus shuttle to the school bookstore. He waited in line for 40 minutes clutching a list of four ...

This post originally appeared on Inside Higher Ed. The choice of a single textbook for one section of a course at one university might seem like a decidedly local issue. But a dispute over whether an ...