From: JJE Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:44:05 -0400

The College Board has some figures:

https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-
tables/average-estimated-undergraduate-budgets-2017-18#Key%20Points

CNBC distilled this and came to a figure of $1,200 per student per year:

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/28/college-textbook-costs-
more-outrageous-than-ever.html

Many, many variables in this question.

Joe Esposito

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 5:32 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: "Holland, Claudia" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:56:26 +0000
>
> Just curious, Rick, how many students received these savings and how much
> savings would there have been, had there been a switch to totally open
> resources? Not knocking the $400k savings, mind you.
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> Thanks,
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> Claudia Holland
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> From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:56:15 +0000
>
> At my institution, we have a group called the Course Material Services
> Team, which includes staff from the bookstore, the registrar’s office,
> campus printing and mail services, the library, and a couple of other
> areas. I serve on the team, as does our Copyright & Scholarly Communication
> Librarian. We’ve been working for a couple of years now on strategies to
> reduce textbook costs for students, and we’ve found that inclusive access
> is – for better or worse – a much easier sell to faculty than OERs. During
> the school year that just ended we had 21 courses with inclusive access
> arrangements – that’s not very many courses, but we calculate the total
> savings to students at roughly $400,000.
>
>
> ---
>
> Rick Anderson
> Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication
> Marriott Library, University of Utah
> Desk: (801) 587-9989
> Cell: (801) 721-1687
> [log in to unmask]
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> From: JJE Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:08:00 -0400
>
> I had three separate conversations about "inclusive access" for textbooks
> this week, and am now wondering if there is a rising tide. For background
> on inclusive access, I refer you to my blog post of last year:
>
> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/03/27/reduce-cost-c
> ollege-textbooks/
>
> Also look at Dominic Broadhurst's paper on this topic:
>
> https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications
> /the-direct-library-supply-of-individual-textbooks-to-studen
> ts--examining-the-value-proposition(3372d989-40e6-4f1d-840a-
> 511977822b16).html
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> Is anybody keeping track of how many institutions are working on inclusive
> access programs and whether the library is involved?
>
> Joe Esposito
>