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Durbin Wants Textbook Cost Accountability
Even before you take an economics course in college, you learn about how much it costs to buy textbooks! U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), sponsoring a new law whose goal is textbook affordability, says students spend almost nine hundred dollars a year.

The College Textbook Affordability Act, signed into law by President Bush, requires full disclosure, including the ISDN number, of the books required for a class. That way, students can see if cheaper options are available for the same books. Also, the law "un-bundles" materials; in many cases, you must buy a workbook and/or CD-ROM together with a textbook.

Students at the University of Illinois at Springfield attended a campus news conference with Durbin Wednesday. Ashley Rook of Chicago says one student she knows had to change majors because of the cost of books and lab materials. Another student, Charles Olivier of Glenwood, says a Spanish workbook, which cannot be re-used, cost $150.

Durbin says the lobbyists for the publishing industry did succeed in pushing back the effective date of the law to July 2010, but he encourages professors and students to try to reap the law's benefits now.

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
09 04 08 by Newsroom
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