What are the thoughts on college textbooks being bad and ...

The textbooks are rubbish, and have been for years. They're also grossly overpriced. In fact, almost all books, right now, are too costly.

I understood there would be many obstacles to reach this goal; I didn't know buying textbooks would be one of them. College textbooks are a scam ...

HOWEVER, the books don't really lose their value. For engineering at least, most of the books are a valuable encyclopedia for your career and ...

With all that being said, drawing from my experience in high school and then in college, it would be the most beneficial to you to learn how to ...

There are so many different levels - even conceptual physics is a college text, but can be used for middle school science - that it should be no ...

One of my most memorable moments in college was being a freshman and rushing to the bookstore to see if my textbook was still on the shelf.

Inconvenient— Traditional textbooks can be inconvenient. Some textbooks weigh as much as six pounds, making them difficult to transport. They're ...

Textbooks should not be the primary method of learning. Lectures, practical demos and videos should be how we are taught.

Quotes like these indicate that many of our students want ... textbooks are way to long and boring and could be simplified some other way.

Thoughts on High-Priced Textbooks: High textbook prices are a pebble in the shoe of many college students. Sure, it's not the biggest ...

And college book stores, which get a percentage of the transactions, bring in much more with high-priced books. And book publishers play up to ...

But textbooks frequently fail to educate students on the process of learning, and how to get to their answers when they forget the original ...

Associate Opinion Editor A.J. Newth discusses the difficulties that modern college students face financially when shopping for textbooks.

Unsurprisingly, there are some forces and issues that have to be taken into account: Booksellers. Many college bookstores are operated by ...

Alongside tuition and fees, textbook costs have risen sharply in recent years. New analysis by the Student PIRGs found that textbook prices ...

I don't think there's anything wrong with assigning an expensive book if it is really worth the money and the alternatives are inadequate. (It ...

Our univariate results revealed textbook prices to be a barrier for most college students, when measured according to stress levels ...

They are pretty good, and since they are online, they get updated and corrected more frequently than mainstream publisher textbooks. But I'm ...

The major barriers — including a student preference for print and unfamiliarity with e-textbooks — show signs of being alleviated. Other factors ...

Landin and her co-author, Rabiya Ansari, provided some hypotheses for the decline in climate change content. One reason could be political ...