Textbooks accessed on a computer are a promising way for students to save money, but a new study says companies are actually exploiting these digital textbooks to make students pay more.
To use the books on the Internet, companies have students pay for a password that expires at the end of the course, eliminating the opportunity for students to sell back books and forcing them to pay full price for a digital book each semester, according to the Student Public Interest Research Groups study.
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