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Speaker 1: Students shouldn't have to pay hundreds, if not thousands of

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Speaker 1: dollars for textbooks in higher education.

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Speaker 2: Mass PERG UMass LOLL Chapter vice president Luke van Horn

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Speaker 2: says many students don't even know what they're paying.

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Speaker 3: For, and one of the major findings that stuck out

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Speaker 3: to a lot of us is that a lot of

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Speaker 3: schools auto bill they are students for textbooks.

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Speaker 2: This is the fourth edition of the mass PERG Student Survey,

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Speaker 2: pulling more than four thousand students nationwide at over one

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Speaker 2: hundred schools like UMass and Salem State.

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Speaker 3: Other universities around the country do this auto billing by course.

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Speaker 3: They do it in a flat rate where it's just

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Speaker 3: rolled into your tuition statement. Other schools actually do it

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Speaker 3: by credit, which can be twenty to forty dollars per

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Speaker 3: credit that you're taking. So if you're taking a full

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Speaker 3: course load of twelve to fifteen credits, it can get

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Speaker 3: very expensive if you're auto bill.

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Speaker 2: Legislation filed in the state House aims to create a

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Speaker 2: Commission to identify the consumer impacts of electronic textbooks in Lowyl. J.

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Speaker 2: Willett WBZ, Boston's news radio