On March 25, Kansas State University will host its second annual day of giving, All In for K-State. This year K-Staters will come together for one day to achieve one objective: to reduce the cost of textbooks for K-State students in support of the university's Open / Alternative Textbook initiative, Textbooks 2.9.
This effort will save students money by replacing expensive traditional textbooks with an open / alternative resource tailored to the class by the instructor.
Over the past several decades, the cost of traditional textbooks has increased three times faster than the rate of inflation.
Undergraduate students at Kansas State University typically pay nearly $1,000 for books each year. Textbooks 2.0 currently cost only $10 per class.