States are moving to cut college costs by introducing open-source textbooks
When I was at Oregon State (a couple years ago), all my math and econ classes used "My{Math,Econ}Lab" as homework. Meaning, if you chose not to or could not pay for Pearson's infamous Flash-based "web" app (which I had to spin up a Windows VM to run), you could not pass the class.It really astounded me that we had to pay a third-party for-profit company to get access to our homework.