Tough problem: High textbook costs
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Winona State University senior Rick Howden, a business administration major, figures he knows a bad deal when he sees it. A $4,500 tab for his college textbooks by the time he graduates? Bad deal.
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Harvard, Oxford and others also will go online in the first deal of its kind. By Nick Bunkley / The Detroit News. By the end of the decade, anyone around the world will have instant access to 7 million volumes
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From bank accounts and mortgages to credit cards and car loans, let the buyer beware: Financial fees are on the rise. And many are just waiting to blindside you.
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Students across the board are facing tuition fee increases of up to ten percent, which the University blames on a lack of Government funding.
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Nearly doubling the educational institutions participating in its massive effort to digitize the world's books, Google said Wednesday that another twelve universities have joined Google Book Search. In total, they will contribute up to 10 million volumes to be scanned.
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Our editor compares the prices of similarly configured Macs and PCs. What he finds out may surprise you.
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By MICHAEL HIMOWITZ  With their newly minted high school graduates headed off to college this fall, millions of parents face two agonizing prospects. One is coming up with the first tuition check. The other is buying their freshman a computer.
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Grade-school math plus time can add up to big bucks in the bank.
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Â· 'Alarming' misconceptions uncovered in surveyÂ· Tuition fees led to fall in university applications
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You've got the college degree, and now you're stressed about what to do with the debt.
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With a shake-up of university fees set to be introduced, figures reveal how much students are currently paying.
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Apple today released its fastest and most affordable iBooks yet, reducing the entry-level price to just Â£749. These are available now.
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A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online.
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PITTSBURGH -- A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy...
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Convenience usually comes at a price â and that price has been climbing.
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Private tutors are a luxury many   American families cannot afford, costing anywhere between $25   to $100 an hour. But California mother Denise Robison found one   online for $2.50 an hour -- in India.
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Consumers pay the price for high merchant fees.