Cost Of University Textbooks Rises To About $900 Per Year
BOSTON – AUGUST 16: June Kapitan, owner of Quantumbooks, stocks a shelf with textbooks August 16, 2005 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Government Accountability Office finds that the average student spends almost $900 on textbooks and supplies, or 26 percent of tuition and fees per year at typical public four-year colleges. The report finds textbook prices have increased 186 percent since 1986. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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