Students spend an average of $900 a year on textbooks, which is 20% of tuition at an average university and half of tuition at a community college! And the prices keep going up.

We think that textbooks should be reasonably priced, students should be able to easily sell their books and used books should be easy to find.

Around the country, students and professors are fighting back. They're refusing to buy books from publishers unless they're cheaper, unbundled and on the market for longer. They're trading books with each other at online book swaps like CampusBookswap.org.  Some professors are even switching to open textbooks, which are free online and affordable to print.  

And publishers are feeling the heat: they're negotiating deals with faculty who push and scrambling to offer lower priced books.  But they're not working fast enough.  New competition like the open textbook publisher Flat World Knowledge and increasing faculty demand could send publishers a message they can't ignore - make textbooks affordable!