John Soares, author of Writing College Textbook Supplements
I recently wrote about how the Higher Education Opportunity Act affects college textbook publishers.
I just found a detailed post on the same subject at Inside Higher Ed. (Inside Higher Ed is an excellent source of information about all things related to college level education.)
Here’s part of what Inside Higher Ed says about how the Higher Education Opportunity Act impacts college textbook publishers, college bookstores, and college students:
Among the hundreds of new regulations in the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) passed by Congress in August 2008 are new mandates that require colleges — and, more specifically, college owned or operated bookstores — to publish the ISBN numbers and retail prices for textbooks, other trade titles, and related course materials that faculty recommend and students buy for classes.
The ISBN mandate will accelerate the demise of a once captive market: college students buying books and course materials at the local college bookstore.
This is an excellent article that anyone involved with college education should read, especially people who want to write college textbook supplements or are concerned about what college textbooks cost students and how the whole issue affects the economic health of the major principals involved: students, college bookstores, online bookstores, and college textbook publishers.
