Selected Press Coverage on OpenStax College and Connexions

The most up-to-date collection of press items is available here.
A selection of pre-2012 press is below:

• "Rice University Publisher Offers Students Free Textbooks," Houston Chronicle, 17 December 2012
• "Free, Unless You Want To Pay," Inside Higher Education, 4 December 2012
• "The Technology Race for Intelligent Textbooks," Communications of the ACM, 21 August 2012
• "Rice U. Hopes Mix of Grants and 'Add-Ons' Will Support Free Textbooks"
  The Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 August 2012
• "Free Textbooks Shaking Up Higher Education," TIME, 10 August 2012
• "Bringing Open Education to the Mainstream," Campus Technology, 25 April 2012
• "Free College Textbooks: Wave of the Future?" Forbes, 9 February 2012
• "Rice University And OpenStax Announce First Open-Source," Textbooks, TechCrunch, 7 February 2012
• "Why Pay for Intro Textbooks?" Inside Higher Education, 7 February 2012
• "Big Savings for U.S. Students in Open-Source Book Program," New York Times, 12 February 2012
• "Let's Make Textbooks Affordable," Los Angeles Times, 12 December 2011
• "Web Tutors Become Stars Far From Classroom," New York Times/International Herald Tribune, 12 December 2011
• "New Digital Tools Let Professors Tailor Their Own Textbooks for Under $20," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 October 2011
• "How to Learn Something for Nothing," New York Times, 18 April 2010
• "Education Life: The Music Lesson," New York Times, 18 April 2010
• "Don't Buy That Textbook, Download It Free," New York Times, 14 September 2008
• "Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California ," Los Angeles Times, 18 August 2008
• "That Book Costs How Much?," New York Times, 25 April 2008
• Cape Town Declaration on Open Educational Resources, 22 January 2008
• "Bringing Open Resources to Textbooks and Teaching," by R. G. Baraniuk and J. Wales, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 January 2008
• "Throw Away your School Books: Here Comes Textbook 2.0," CNN.com, 8 November 2007
• "Open Source Connects Courseware at Rice University," Campus Technology, 26 June 2007
• "Help, by the Book," Editorial, New York Times, 1 May 2007
• "Rice University Revives Its Press In Digital Model," Wall Street Journal, 13 July 2006
• "College Libraries Set Aside Books in a Digital Age," New York Times, 14 May 2005
• "The Next Wave: Liberation Technology," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 January 2004
• Inside Higher Education (various)

More press clippings are available on the Connexions website here.