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academic freedom.2) As long as there is a process in place to assure that faculty authored textbooks are evaluated by an impartialcommittee of qualified content experts, there should be no prohibition against the adoption of those texts for class.• One of the omissions of the study was to examine the lower cost publishing alternatives as way of reducingcosts. One such alternatives would be to eliminate "hardback" books and only use paperback books moving to amore genertic look for the books. Using less expensive paper products to print the books on would also provide areduction in publishing costs. Moving toward books that might not be resold (because of their cheap costs) butwould be recycled for their material content would help put the emphasis on the information in the book not itsappearance. The idea of using such expensive materials for books that for the most part do not become part of anindividuals reference library is simply wasteful and expensive. We are better off to at least offer these "plainwrapper" books as an alternative to the high cost flashy ones to see what students prefer.• Textbook life can also be extended by producing updates as supplemental pamphlets with new information tocurrent editions, rather than publishing a whole new textbook.Virginia's law about faculty not being able to benefit financially from the use of a textbook is also reasonable.Not necessarily textbook related, but another cost-savings to students might be realized by unbundling theresearch arms of universities from their teaching function. If university research is assumed to produce economicbenefit, let the profit of that research directly provide the income for continuing research, or return that profit to thetaxpayers who funded it in the first place. Mandate that student tuition and fees only pay for the teaching functionand those fee-based activities in which a student CHOOSES to participate.• I manage a community college bookstore. I've never dealt with renting books but have talked with othermanagers who have done so. They say it is a lose, lose, situation. My only thought is from dealing with studentsrenting calculators. It was also a lose, lose, situation as many calculators never returned. If a student chose tocome back to school at a later date and I had their name on hold, the rent it would have cost them to catch up fromthe time they decided not to bring it back, was overwhelming and would have kept them out of school.Another thought is that of the loss taken when a new edition comes into play, making the old one obsolete and withno value whatsoever. A manager buys books based on history of the class. If history shows average enrollment of20, the books are bought and only 10 are rented, you've lost money. So, you lose money on the 10 sitting on theshelf, plus any that are not returned.I don't see it as a feasible or a quality educational move. My suggestion is that the publishers quit addingsupplemental items that look free, call it a new edition and raise the price. Nor should they add a page in the indexarea, call it a new edition and raise the price. I've compared editions and know that this is happening. If there isn'tany new educational information added to the book, then there shouldn't be new editions published. Technicalbooks probably are changing every 2 to 3 years, but history, geography, and like classes don't change that much.Especially classes covering eras of the past. History is just what it says, history. If it didn't happen back then, howin the world can a new edition be made with more information about a history already printed.Just my thoughts.• Why not force institutions to buy back from their own students first before they turn to wholesalers for their usedbook supply?Total Responses: 8-126-
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................
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Estimated Textbook Rental Cost Per
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARYGrowing apprehensi
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ConclusionTextbook rental programs
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INTRODUCTIONAcross the nation, the
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increase in tuition and fees (7 per
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Source: Government Accountability O
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The IBHE’s 2006 survey found that
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ookstores, 17 percent to friends/re
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1. provide the option of purchasing
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Student fees are collected:• as p
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CURRENT ILLINOIS TEXTBOOK RENTAL PR
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MethodologyCOSTS AND FEASIBILITY OF
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PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES - TEXTBOOK RENT
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Under a textbook rental program, ea
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FundingSR 692 directs the IBHE and
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have a separate series so that if a
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Impact on Tax Revenue.Property Tax.
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Textbook Selection. While acknowled
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of the exact custom book. This alte
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Current Status of Voluntary Faculty
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APPENDIX BTextbook Study Timeline -
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Textbook Survey - Third Party Books
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