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College and Textbook Industry Facts and Figures
- The price of college textbooks has increased by 812 percent since 1978 - outpacing
new home prices, medical services, and even college tuition (College Board)
- The price of textbooks inflates at an average annual rate of 6.1 percent (FinAid)
- The average four-year college student can expect to spend nearly $5,000 on textbooks
total, or approximately $1,200 per year
(College Board)
- Finding the best prices can save students, on average,
45 percent on textbooks, slashing
the total textbook spend during a four-year degree to under $2,250
- The average student overspends by 20 to 70 percent on textbooks, or 45 percent on average
- Where do campus bookstore textbook profits go? Approximately one-fifth of the cover
prices go to sellers to cover operating expenses, while more than three-quarters go directly
to publishers
(U.S. News and World Report)
- A "modest college budget" for attending an in-state public college averages $22,261
annually; private schools average $43,289. These estimated average budgets include tuition,
fees, textbooks, housing, and transportation
(College Board)
- Total number of college students in the United States: 21 million
- Total estimated textbook overpay by all collective college students (four years): $47 billion
- Textbook rentals typically cost 30 to 50 percent of the textbook cover price
- Used, past editions, and international editions represent three alternative textbook
buying methods. Rentals and ebooks are two others. Ebooks, or digital textbooks, have no
resale value and have not shown signs of replacing hardcopy textbooks to-date. The other
four alternative textbook buying/renting methods have grown considerably
