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Faculty might be interested in following the growing campaign focused on reducing the costs of textbooks. Perhaps the fastest window into this work is the maketextbooksaffordable.org website.

Recently, legislation passed in the House of Representatives that would, if passed in the Senate as well, involve 3 components.

1. Requires publishers to disclose textbook pricing and revision information up-front to faculty
2. Requires publishers to offer textbooks and supplemental materials “unbundled” (separately)
3. Requires institutions, to the maximum extent practicable, to provide the list of required and recommended textbooks (including prices and ISBNs) when students register for classes.

There is also growing support for open access textbooks. Faculty are being encouraged to sign the Open Textbooks Statement found online here.

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