“Renting a textbook from any of the many textbook rental companies can save a good chunk of money if the student is diligent about sending it back before the return deadline. The course may require a newer edition that has added material.” Make sure the edition and ISBN number are the same as what the course requires. “ Search on Google for used textbook sources and buy the book secondhand.
Here’s what Lindy Schneider, aka America’s College Advisor recommends: Professors may be receptive to students’ needs, especially when the needs revolve around that student’s desire to succeed. This is why students should consult faculty before subscribing. Students don’t get to pick the textbooks they’re assigned, so, if a professor chooses a book that isn’t available through Cengage, they can’t access it with their subscription. Now, it’s just about getting the word out to students.” It starts with a dialogue between faculty and students “So, we thought, why not offer unlimited access through a digital streaming service, which is how most of us consume our media, anyway? It was a ton of work to make sure that authors had their rights met, and honestly, we were a bit about how universities would respond as they’ve shown reluctance to change, but we’ve had an incredibly positive reaction from faculty, and campus bookstores have signs up Cengage Unlimited. “The affordability problem of textbooks is obvious and one that has gotten worse over the last 15 years,” says Hansen. A subscription also gives access to study materials that students can customize as they see fit. If you prefer a hard copy, you can rent a physical textbook for a semester for $7.99 (the cost of shipping and returning), and you can also keep six e-books for up to a year after your subscription ends.
It costs $119 per semester or $180 a year. Cengage recently launched Cengage Unlimited, a subscription-based platform, which (much like Netflix does for television shows, or Spotify does for music) gives students access to a digital library of textbooks (any of the more than 22,000 Cengage has published or licensed). However alarming the findings of the survey, they weren’t published without a reason and a ready solution. We're complaining - rightly so - about needing more women in STEM, so why put these extra barriers in front of them? It was quite earth shattering from my perspective to see how society is forcing people to make these trade-offs.” A digital streaming service for textbooks could solve the problem “And then you have students saying they won’t pursue a major because it is too expensive. Hansen, CEO of Cengage tells NBC News BETTER. “That students are skipping meals to afford textbooks strikes me as unconscionable,” Michael E. Students will skip meals or take fewer classes just to save on textbooksĪ new survey by Cengage, a global education and technology company, shows that all too often students simply can’t swing the cost of textbooks, with nearly half of current and former college students (43 percent) saying they’ve skipped meals to afford course materials, and 31 percent taking fewer classes to manage the financial burden. Then there’s the another doozy: textbooks, which average $203 per book, according to data from Follett rising over 800 percent in price over the past 40 years. Students (and/or their parents) typically also have to pay for lodging, meal plans and school supplies. The cost of tuition may be the biggest punch our bank accounts take as we embark on college, but the fees don’t end there.
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