After the report’s release, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced legislation referred to the Finance Committee that would permanently extend the college tuition tax deduction and extend it to the cost of textbooks.
Meanwhile, one publisher has announced it has come up with at least a partial solution to the high cost of texts. Kinetic Books Company of Seattle says it is providing “some relief for those struggling to balance quality education with insane textbook prices,” at least for physics classes. Kinetic announced what it calls “a comprehensive digital physics textbook that costs one-third the price of traditional print textbooks, and a suite of virtual labs that allow for more student involvement and experimentation.”
The digital text offsets high printing costs for its series of physics texts, the company says.
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