Nicole Allen

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  www.thestate.com/business/story/885313.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/2/2009    Last Visited: 8/2/2009  

  The result is that used books often are cheaper than even rentals or electronic books, said Nicole Allen, campaign director of Make Textbooks Affordable, a project of the Student Public Interest Research Group.

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  www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2007/nov/21/textbook-bill- - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/21/2007    Last Visited: 12/14/2007  

  "Basically, the main difference between the bill in the House and the bill that was signed into law in California is that the bill that the House is considering is actually going to do something about the problem," said Nicole Allen, textbook advocate for CALPIRG.
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  The national bill is going to accomplish what California failed to do, which is address the root of the problem," Allen said.

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  www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/newsroom.asp?id2=36865 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/15/2007    Last Visited: 1/6/2008  

  Contact: Nicole Allen, (503) 231-4181 x322, nicole@studentpirgs.org
  
  ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL TEXTBOOKS BILL

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  www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-07-31-college_N.ht - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/31/2008    Last Visited: 8/1/2008  

  "The bill gives students more power as consumers," said Nicole Allen of the Student Public Interest Research Groups, a non-profit that has pushed for textbook changes.

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  www.uwire.com/Article.aspx?id=3127358 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/14/2008    Last Visited: 9/16/2008  

  The study, authored by Nicole Allen, textbook advocate for the Student PIRGs, relies upon three criteria -- affordability, printability and accessibility -- to evaluate digital textbooks.
  
  The evaluation suggests that educational institutions should move away from digital and hard copy textbooks and toward open textbooks.Open textbooks are materials directly uploaded online by professors in lieu of being sold first to the publishing companies.
  
  "We were really concerned that these textbooks are not priced well enough and they're just so heavily restricted that students don't actually want to use them," Allen said.

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  seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/380290_books24.html?source - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/24/2008    Last Visited: 9/24/2008  

  Nicole Allen, director of the Student PIRGs "Make Textbooks Affordable" campaign, believes the cost of most online books is still too high and that publishers are placing unfair restrictions on students by allowing them to access books temporarily.She wants to see the same kind of change that has taken place in the music industry over the last decade.
  
  "We all saw what happened in the music industry -- when was the last time you bought a CD?"Allen said.
  
  She added, "If you are charging $200 for a textbook, don't be shocked if a student is going to find a way to pirate a copy."
  
  Allen advocates for "open-source textbooks," copyright-free downloadable texts published online.

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  www.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/paying-for-colleg - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/2/2009    Last Visited: 9/10/2009  

  "We don't think that a textbook E-reader will solve any problems unless we can ensure that content can be delivered to students in a fair and affordable manner," says Nicole Allen, textbook advocate for the Student Public Interest Research Groups.

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  www.smartmoney.com/deal-of-the-day/index.cfm?story=2008 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/4/2008    Last Visited: 8/5/2008  

  It's just as bad today, says Nicole Allen, textbooks program director for the Student Public Interest Research Groups, a consumer advocate.
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  "It's a critical step," says Allen.

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  blog.twidox.com/ - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 9/16/2008  

  Nicole Allen, the campaign's director, writes: "I think this report helps draw a brighter line between the good and bad of digital textbooks.

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  news.slashdot.org/news/08/04/26/1823250.shtml - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 4/27/2008  

  Nicole Allen, Textbooks Program Director at CalPIRG, wrote to say that a more relevant link than the CalPIRG link at the end of my slashdot summary would be maketextbooksaffordable.org [maketextbo ... rdable.org].

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