SUNY program offers cost-free digital textbooks

by Madeline Gottlieb, Pipe Dream

In an effort to combat the rising costs of higher education, SUNY Open Textbooks, a new program to provide textbooks online for free, will be made available in early 2014. In an effort to combat the rising costs of higher education, SUNY Open Textbooks, a new program to provide textbooks online for free, will be made available in early 2014. The SUNY Open Textbooks program is providing textbooks online for students to read, rather than purchase, for their classes. “SUNY libraries have been concerned with the rising cost of textbooks for years. One common strategy, placing textbooks on reserves has high use, but it is a limited and expensive solution. We need to add new strategies that reduce the cost of textbooks,” wrote Carey Hatch, associate provost for academic technologies and information services of SUNY.

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