The Affordable Textbooks Campaign, a project of the Student PIRGs, Arizona Students Association, California State Student Association, and student governments across the country, announced on Tuesday that over 1,000 professors have signed a statement of intent to use “open textbooks”- free, online and open source textbooks.  Because the availability of open textbooks is still relativity small, one goal of statement is to educate faculty and spur the creation of more open textbooks.  The announcement marks a new direction for the campaign, which has so far documented publisher worst practices, passed legislation in numerous states and is currently supporting a bill before congress.

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