Can you smell the pencil shavings and new notebooks? Ah, it’s back-to-school time again. One enduring reality about this time of year, whether decades ago or right now, is that textbooks can weigh ...

President Joe Biden's crusade against so-called "junk fees" is on its way to college campuses, and some of the pushback is fierce. Some university leaders say a planned change to an Obama-era ...

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 ...

A new digital textbook from UCLA aims to change stereotypes about Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders by teaching their ...

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 academic department may impose such a selection on ...

A booming market in recent years for selling and renting used college textbooks has saved students across the United States a ton of cash. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

When a literature professor debuted an AI-assisted textbook last year, she hoped it would free up more time for students in her medieval literature survey course to engage in meaningful discussion ...

College students are intimately familiar with exorbitant price tags on textbooks. Often dipping into scholarships and student loans or working extra hours just to manage the costs, many routinely cite ...

Undergraduate textbooks are going digital. Declan Butler asks how this will shake up student reading habits and the multi-billion-dollar print textbook market. The rumble of textbooks thumping on to ...