With ‘Access Codes,’ Textbook Pricing Gets More Complicated Than Ever By Jeffrey R. Young September 3, 2012. A blog post by Luke Thomas, a student at the U. of Maine at Orono, ...

Along with the traditional textbooks, many college classes now require students to purchase access codes—which cost $100 on average—to online platforms created by publishers such as McGraw ...

The Penn Bookstore advertises its rental option as an alternative that can save students up to 75 percent of the cost of a new textbook. The bookstore also offers more than 80 percent of textbooks for ...

Had the textbooks been unbundled, students could have paid as little as one-third of the new-book costs on one of the many online marketplaces for used books. Moreover, expired access codes mean ...

Textbook publishers now push digital access codes through which students can get online reading material, take quizzes and even submit homework. Unlike printed textbooks, a digital access code can ...

With the increasing digitization of textbooks and learning platforms, some are questioning the effectiveness of these tools — especially when it comes to mandates for the use of access codes in ...

HYDERABAD: The bilingual textbooks have QR codes so that students can access lessons on the digital platform using the Diksha App. In hindsight, most of the lessons are not available and they are ...