AAP: US Students Spending on College Materials Down 23 Percent in Fall Semester - Publishing Perspectives

With Mom cleaning the house for Christmas company, Panzer decided to clean the Panzermobile. While vacuuming the floor, he discovered a wadded up post under the pilot's seat. Smoothing it out our fastidious kitty discovered it was a post from the Publishing Perspectives site about college students textbook buying habits.

According to Porter Anderson's post at the Publishing Perspectives site, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) reports US college students are spending less on textbooks and course materials. Spending for the Fall 2019 semester is down 23 percent from last year. Although some students still buy new or used textbooks, others are renting their textbooks, or subscribing to digital textbooks (for an unlimited time or a limited time) and getting online homework answers. The last third of the post quotes extensively from college professor Tim Wu, who advocates for the use of textbooks from free sites.

Only five days until Christmas.

Panzer says, "Textbooks are so expensive how do publishers expect students to pay for them?"

Note: This is a h-u-g-e post. Bring a pitcher of tea and three muffins for today's reading selection.

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