The Rise in Textbook Costs

The Rise in Textbook Costs

        Students all over North Carolina Central University campus are complaining about the
rise in text book cost. Should textbooks be included in the in the cost of the course being that the
cost of tuition is also on the rise? Are there cheaper alternatives to buying textbooks if so how
much cheaper.
        Malcolm Elliot junior at NCCU say “the price of textbooks are sky rocketing, but new
technologies have given us cheaper alternatives such as e-books, and buying or renting books off
site such as amazon.com for almost half the price of the books sold by the university.”
Other students at NCCU weren’t afraid to disagree with Malcolm’s views. Sylvia Blank
sophomore at NCCU said “there are risks to buying e-books and hard copies off different sites.
The software on your tablet or PC could crash and your e-book would be useless or a site like
chegg.com could send the wrong book or the book may have missing pages. The biggest issue of
all they may not offer the exact book we need because central have their own copies of certain
text for example the plazas Spanish book.”
       Matthew Ferante said “with tuition on the rise and textbooks on the rise it seems that
NCCU is designed to accumulate more dept for their students. NCCU should include the cost of
books into the cost of the course instead of it coming out of our loans. What about students who
don’t receive a lot of financial aid, and live off-Campus, they have to pay for housing, books,
food, gas, and car repairs.
       Blair Ingram junior at NCCU said “we as students have no say so on the rise in textbook
cost. Teachers demand that we have the books for our courses, they are critical towards our
grades. This comes down to if we want to do well in school were going to get the required
textbooks regardless the cost.”