Nicole Allen

Nicole Allen is the Textbooks Advocate for The Student PIRGs and Campaign Director for Make Textbooks Affordable. She is best known for organizing over 2,000 professors ^[1] to support the open textbooks and for authoring a report that challenges the publishing industry's digital textbook practices.^[2] Her work has been covered in the Wall Street Journal,^[3] USA Today,^[4][5] TIME^[6] the Los Angeles Times,^[7] and US News and World Report.^[8]

External links

• The Student PIRGs
• Make Textbooks Affordable
• Open Textbooks

References

1. ^ Press Release: 1,000 Professors from 300 Colleges Declare Preference for Affordable Textbooks, April 15, 2008.
2. ^ Course Correction, PIRG, August 2008.
3. ^ As Textbooks Go 'Custom,' Students Pay, The Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2008.
4. ^ Online 'open textbooks' save students cash, USA Today, July 10, 2008.
5. ^ Congress approves bill aimed at controlling college costs, USA Today, July 31, 2008.
6. ^ Coming This Fall: Free Textbooks, TIME, July 16, 2008.
7. ^ E-textbooks may not be cheaper than printed ones, report says, Los Angeles Times, August 26, 2008.
8. ^ Four Reasons Textbook Costs Will Drop, US News and World Report, July 21, 2008.

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