Students spend an average of $900 a year on textbooks, which is 20% of tuition at an average university and half of tuition at a community college! And the prices keep going up.

We think that textbooks should be reasonably priced, students should be able to easily sell their books and used books should be easy to find.

Around the country, students and professors are fighting back. They're refusing to buy books from publishers unless they're cheaper, unbundled and on the market for longer. They're ordering cheaper books from British websites. They're trading books with each other at online book swaps like CampusBookswap.com. And publishers are feeling the heat: they're putting out lower priced books and negotiating deals with faculty who push for lower prices.