Word: textbook
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According to a study by the College Board, textbook costs have increased nearly 90 percent during the past decade. A similar study by the National Association of College Stores puts the figure at 104 percent...
James M. Rosen, the Harvard Coop's textbook buyer, says students will pay 5 percent more for books at the Coop this year than last year. Other college stores are hiking prices an average of 9 percent...
...past three years, textbook prices have gone up in excess of the rise in the cost of living," he says. "It's fair to assume that it's going to continue...
Nicholas A. Veliotes, president of the American Association of Publishers, says the modern textbook costs more to produce because there are more photos and charts...
Veliotes says developing a textbook is a risky venture which requires a "tremendous investment of time and money," especially with "the complex, graphic, audiovisual, and other support materials that now make up the modern package...