[A2k] New York Times editorial on Textbook pricing

[Ed Mierzwinski]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/opinion/25fri4.html Excerpt: Schools are
beginning to balk at outrageous pricing. Rice University offers textbooks
for some classes free online and charges a nominal fee for the printed
version. A new company called Flat World Knowledge, based in Nyack, N.Y.,
plans to offer online textbooks free and hopes to make its profit by selling
supplemental materials like study guides and hard copies printed on demand.



Here is my blog entry on the piece,

 http://static.uspirg.org/consumer/archives/2008/04/nytimes_that_bo.html

with more info on PIRG's http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org
<http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/>  campaign.





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U.S. Public Interest Research Group

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