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States are moving to cut college costs by introducing open-source textbooks
Every cost associated with higher learning has steadily increased over the past decade, but none more so than college textbooks. While tuition increased by 63% between 2006 and 2016, and housing costs increased by 50%, the cost of textbooks went up by 88%, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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This will be unpopular with lecturers who have gotten quite comfortable with charging students $80+ a pop for a glorified word document they or their colleagues wrote.