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The College Board estimated in January that the average student spends $1,200 annually on textbooks. The price of books skyrocketed by 82 percent in the years between 2002 and 2013, a number high enough to convince 65 percent of students to decide against buying a book, according to a Government Accountability Office survey. Ninety-four percent of the GAO respondents who didn’t buy a book out of financial concerns admitted they did so even with the expectation that it would hurt them academically. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released numbers indicating the price of textbooks has risen by 800 percent over the past 30 years.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 01:50:45 +0000

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