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  • Brittany Wolfe had to play an infuriating game of checking out books on reserve to avoid having to buy them herself when she was an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles. Now she is giving advice on textbooks as part of her work as an orientation counselor. (Associated Press)

    More choices alter college textbook landscape

    A new federal law requires publishers to provide textbook price information to professors and calls on colleges to identify course textbooks during registration, giving students more time to consider their options.

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  • "It's like this terrible game of catch your books when you can," said Miss Wolfe, a new graduate who estimates that she saved $800 a year using books on reserve and who now shares textbook tips as a counselor to incoming UCLA students. "It's frustrating when you're already stressed about school. Being stressed about textbooks doesn't seem right."

    More choices alter college textbook landscape →

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