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February 12, 2016

Open-source textbooks gain on college campuses

  • The open textbooks, produced with publicly available material, are issued to students for free or a fraction money they typically spend annually on books.
    • By MICHAEL MELIA
    Associated Press

    STORRS, Conn. — The standard textbook for Fundamentals of General Chemistry I at the University of Connecticut has a list price of $303. For students who use the version professor Edward Neth is preparing for the fall semester, the cost will be zero.

    An early adopter of open source textbooks, Neth said he turned to the new technology out of frustration with spiraling prices of commercial textbooks.


     
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