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Ohio offers textbook discounts
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut announced that the University System of Ohio will offer a discount on electronic books in an agreement with the nation’s leading publishers.
The University System of Ohio sponsored a symposium in April 2008 on textbook affordability as part of the stated goal in Fingerhut’s 10-Year “Strategic Plan for Higher Education” to hold down costs for college students who are struggling to afford an education.
Through a partnership with CourseSmart, a provider of electronic textbooks from the six largest commercial publishers in the U.S., the University System of Ohio will offer half or more off the print price of the majority of active textbooks from these publishers to students enrolled in public and private colleges and universities and adult learning programs.
This is the first partnership between a university system and CourseSmart, which will offer nearly all of its digital textbooks at discounts of 50 to 55 percent off the new print price list. CourseSmart currently offers more than 4,000 titles, and over time more text books will be included in the program so that the opportunity for student savings will increase.
Using http://textbooks.uso.edu, students can purchase textbooks through CourseSmart’s catalogue. Students will also have the opportunity to save through CourseSmart at campus bookstores participating in the program.
Through a separate partnership with XanEdu, the national leader in “course packs” (articles, cases, textbook chapters, and other copyrighted materials), students will also now have increased access to more digital materials that supplement textbooks.
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