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48 Percent of Colleges, 2.2 Million Students Using Free OpenStax Textbooks This Year
August 01, 2018
HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 1 -- Rice University issued the following news release:

This year, over 2.2 million students are saving an estimated $177 million by using free textbooks from OpenStax, the Rice University-based publisher of open educational resource materials.

Since 2012, OpenStax's 29 free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks for the highest-enrolled high school and college courses have been used by more than 6 million students. This year, OpenStax added . . .

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