Save students hundreds in book costs. Adopt a textbook for your class — just download and/or buy a printed copy.  It is yours to use according to its specific license.  Use part or all of it without worring about royalties, or worry if it is “fair use.”

Most are free  college-level textbooks with Creative Commons Licenses.  Royalty-free.  Low-Cost Print versions.  

These college-level textbooks are currently or were recently used in U.S. colleges and universities.  

• These are university-quality textbooks:
  • Most contain exercises, discussion questions, problem sets.
  • Most have appendices, supplemental materials and bibliographies.
  • Academically reviewed and tested in the classrooms.

• PDF versions are free.  Registration is not required for downloading.
  

• Some texts (marked with a dark triangle (►)in the title) have print versions available, reprinted by Textbook Equity under the terms of their Creative Commons (e.g. CC-BY) license.

• Prices for print versions range from U.S. $19.95 to $59.95 (average = $39.00) plus standard tax and shipping charged by the printers —  Amazon.com or Lulu.com.  In most cases the books are printed in grayscale to keep the prices manageable.

• Other texts, marked with a § in their title, include links to the author’s printed versions.

• If you own the copyright to a textbook and wish to convert it to an open license writ:  editors at textbookequity dot org.