What We Are Doing about the High Cost of Textbooks

摘要

Let's begin with the obvious: The price of textbooks has risen much faster than the cost of living over the last thirty years, but there has not been a significant increase in their quality. We don't propose to analyze the economic and educational factors that underlie this phenomenon. Instead, we will describe our efforts to help lower the cost of textbooks for standard undergraduate mathematics courses in North American colleges and universities.