5 Colleges to Test Bulk-Purchasing of e-Textbooks in Bid to Rein In Costs

The five colleges involved in the project are: Cornell University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, the University of Virginia, and the University of Wisconsin. They jointly negotiated the e-textbook deal in a process led by Internet2, as part of its relatively new program to try to pool the buying power of colleges in technology purchases.