Boundless Continues to Make College Education Affordable For Students

For the educational start up Boundless, the mission objective is simple, to provide college students with textbooks for free. No wonder it has already garnered the support of over a million loyal followers which can be explained by the ever increasing costs of college textbooks, something that is estimated to cost the student about $655 every year on average. While the figure represents a decline from the $702 that it would have taken about 4 years back, the present figure is still high enough for the students to explore alternative sources. "Students deserve better than the status quo of ineffective, overpriced textbooks," founder Ariel Diaz said. "They've grown up with amazing technology but are burdened with poorly-designed products or ancient technology when they get their education." With student debt already on the wrong side of a trillion dollars, Boundless does enjoy a lot of relevance in the US. What Boundless is aiming to provide the student community with is text books and study materials which might not exactly be considered to be akin to the traditional methods of teaching that is centered around textbooks but is even better and more involving. "It's not your assigned textbook, it's better" is how the company prefers to be tagged with. However, all of the efforts have not been without the occasional brush with the law as book publishers have not been too kind of Diaz's efforts to provide students with text books for free. Three of the big name publishers, Pearson Education Cengage Learning and Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing Group had even sued Boundless on issues of copyright infringement. Diaz though is claiming none of that can dampen their spirits and they are looking for ways to further expand and grow. What comes as a source of strength for Boundless is that they serve more than a million students every month. It provides free resources for 21 college level courses while its premium services which costs $19.99 provides interactive study materials and other stuff to help students grasp the subject easily. Boundless Continues to Make College Education Affordable For Students is a post from: E-Reader News

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