Students can buy an electronic textbook for about $40, and a package that includes extra digital tools for about $60 to $80. Students in the company’s inclusive access program pay less.

Digital textbooks could save you a boatload when it comes to paying for college. Here's how. A new study out from a social learning Web site says that digital college textbooks will account for 20 ...

Textbooks are the bane of every college kid’s existence: They’re expensive, heavy, half the time you end up using them once, your professors’ insist on going off book, and when all’s said ...

Students also have access to a wider array of options, including used books and digital textbooks, which can save as much as 40% , according to the non-profit National Association of College Stores.

The average cost of college textbooks rose about four times faster than the rate of inflation over the last decade. "Our digital first model lowers prices for students and, over time, increases ...

Rise of the digital college textbook. Textbook publishers hope to avoid extinction. by . ... Ind., switched 6,000 students to digital textbooks in 2011. Mooresville, S.C., has moved in the same ...

A great story. But its ending is really just the beginning when it comes to talk of e-textbooks. The Textbook Goes Digital. A bunch of companies, including startup Packback, as well as Chegg ...

As students cut costs by buying books from cheaper online retailers or by downloading e-textbooks, campus bookstores sell fewer and fewer textbooks. That’s triggering an identity crisis for one ...

Can an eReader Replace College Textbooks? By Nick Mokey Published April 11, 2017 ... and the tiny discount retailers offer for digital books will take years to justify the cost of the hardware.

Many digital textbooks now require students to purchase access codes from publishers, locking them into time-limited subscriptions. Once the code expires, the textbook becomes inaccessible.

Digital technology makes it possible to improve the clarity, precision and utility of a textbook. A process known as “knowledge engineering” powers those improvements.