Sarah Chaney
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first heard Dec 2017
last heard Dec 2017
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You also have eBay and textbooks.com.
And then you also have Barnes & Noble, for instance, offering rentals of textbooks.
And so those are just some of the options we're seeing.
And then what's really interesting, I think, is there's a site called OpenStax, which offers free downloadable copies of a lot of different introductory textbooks.
So it's essentially at no cost for students.
These are also other cheaper options.
And e-books are accounting for a growing share of the consumer price index data for educational books.
So that's likely influencing the overall price data there.
And
publishers are offering loose-leaf binders, which are cheaper, and these interactive digital books and courses that publishers are selling in volume to professors so professors can negotiate the prices to be lower per student.
Right.
It's hard to kind of say exactly how much of the fall in textbook prices is due to publishers lowering print textbook prices versus publishers offering these cheaper digital options.
The experts and economists I spoke with said it's most likely the latter.
Yeah, thanks so much for your time.
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