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Download full textUS Government Accountability Office, 2005
In the last two decades, college textbook prices have increased at twice the rate of inflation but have followed close behind tuition increases. Increasing at an average of 6 percent per year, textbook prices nearly tripled from December 1986 to December 2004, while tuition and fees increased by 240 percent and overall inflation was 72…
Descriptors: Costs, Expenditures, Textbooks, Postsecondary Education
