Federal Panel Advises Shift From Textbooks To Web

“A federal advisory panel studying the high cost of college texts was offered a simple suggestion Monday for keeping down expenses: Don’t use so many books. Or, at least, not books in the conventional sense. The idea is to prod professors to develop more courses that take advantage of articles, lecture notes, study guides and other materials available for free on the Internet.” One unresolved question: “Who is to blame for textbooks that often cost more than $100?”