
OER Digest – February 7th, 2020
From Kaitlyn Vitez and Cailyn Nagle (USPIRG) | Volume 99 | February 6th, 2020
THE OER DIGEST
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AUTOMATIC BILLING LAWSUIT: Major textbook publishers and college bookstore chains are facing a class action lawsuit from independent booksellers. The independent bookstores argue that the automatic textbook billing programs, also known as “inclusive access”, promoted by the defendants amounts to a “conspiracy” that edges independent bookstores out of the market. Last year, an independent bookstore in South Carolina filed a lawsuit on similar grounds against Trident Technical College due to their automatic billing process, claiming it was an anticompetitive practice. Read more “OER Digest – February 7th, 2020”