As they start a new school year, college students usually come to campus knowing ... have become more transparent about textbooks and more proactive in assigning free, digital or low-cost books to ...

UMass Lowell, together with colleges and universities across the state, is developing free, online textbooks that are more ...

And yup you're going to spend $150 on a textbook for a class you don't care about! Turns out, it's not unreasonable for some four year college students to spend close to $500 a year on textbooks.