CBL Prep Books Now Free

One of the biggest gripes from the college student population is the expense of textbooks. The story is relatively simple: textbook publishers tweak old versions of their textbooks every year and keep prices really high. Bookstores (i.e. Universities) profit from the sales of these books, and thus have an incentive to keep prices high - even in the face of increased protest from student groups. Students get miffed and feel they are being exploited, considering they have paid tuition and don't want to spend an extra $1,000+ on books per semester.

Without going too far into it - the internet is the obvious forum for this process to be disaggregated and attacked. Kno, Inkling and Coursesmart are all addressing this issue by delivering cool content through tablet computers and making it cheaper because they avoid the printing+delivery+inventory costs. Chegg and Bookrenter are also players here, renting textbooks (which is really a fast way to avoid the "buy and return" game).

When we launched the CBL Exam, many students kept asking us, "Are there prep books available?" We scoured the net, talked to publishers and found that we would be in the same category - offering expensive books while there were free options online elsewhere to learn our competencies.

To address this growing need - we are offering all of our study materials for free. Now a student has multiple places to learn: in school, via online resources, and via our own prep books. Anyone can go to our website and download our books free of charge. In the next few months, we will have enhanced offerings with video lectures and quizzes to help you study.

To access our free study materials, click here.