Annual spending on textbooks is about half of what it was two decades ago, fueled by growing demand for digital resources and discounted access programs.
The University of Houston has increased the market share of students buying course materials from the bookstore by 79%, a 62-percentage-point increase from fall 2022.
As ideal as inclusive access intends to be, the Department argues it's a model pushed by textbook publishers to wholesale digital materials to entire classes, stripping student choice.
