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07/01/2005

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Affordable Textbooks for the 21st Century

A Guide to Establishing Textbook Rental Services

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04/07/2005

News Release

Seven Hundred Physics and Math Professors from Over One Hundred Universities Call on Thomson Learning to Stop Unnecessary Textbook Revisions

As a prominent publisher continues to issue "new" editions of textbooks that are not significantly "new", hundreds of college physics and mathematics professors issued a joint call to action. The call to action was sparked by the latest research from the Student PIRGs that found that new textbook revisions reduce the availability of used books, which are 45% cheaper than new books.

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02/27/2005

Report

Ripoff 101: 2nd Edition

In order to both confirm our initial findings and to follow up on a number of anecdotal reports of additional problems with textbook pricing, the State PIRGs conducted an expanded survey of the most widely purchased textbooks at 59 colleges and universities across the country. (February 2005)

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02/01/2005

Resource

Ripoff 101: 2nd Edition

How the Publishing Industry’s Practices Needlessly Drive Up Textbook Costs, and A National Survey of Textbook Prices

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