Story by Katlyn Mackie, Staff writer According to the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank, college textbook prices are 812 percent higher than they were three decades ago. Prices have risen faster than tuition, health care costs and housing prices. Students enrolled in a public four-year university spend an average of $1,250 a year on Read More
Story by Connor Jaschen, Features Editor With the semester coming to a close, it is time to start winding down from school. Take a step back for a second, look at all that was or wasn’t accomplished and ready up for next semester to start it all over again. With any luck, your grades are right Read More
The title “Textbook profits benefit publisher, not University” in the February 6 issue of The Murray State News is misleading. As an Murray State faculty member and a co-author on two different chemistry texts, I would like to point out a few items regarding textbooks and their costs. Yes, textbook prices have risen a great Read More
Samantha English, vice president of marketing of C.A. Jones, Inc., recently sent an email to students who purchased or rented textbooks from University Book & Bean earlier this semester. The email said textbook rentals are due no later than Dec. 14. Rentals can be returned Wednesday-Friday from 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., at University Book Read More