A recent article in 4 Your Money talks about a pilot program in Florida whereby college students can obtain online textbooks for free.
A new online program launched in Florida is aimed at providing relief to students by offering digital textbooks. The idea is to offer textbooks that are used in common general education courses online free of charge.
"Open access textbooks is the real solution to reducing the cost of textbooks for our students," Orange Grove Digital Repository Director Susie Henderson said. "Currently our students pay, in many cases, more than the cost of tuition for their textbooks, there's something wrong there."
The program, called Orange Grove Texts Plus for the repository where most of the digital books are coming from, has received a federal grant and is being made a pilot program for the rest of the nation.
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