Ron Hammond, Ph. D. is a professor at Utah Valley State College, decides to stop using textbooks in his classes because of their high costs. He says enough is enough and says no to high priced textbooks.

The price of a book runs to hundred dollars or more very easily and Hammond feels he is forcing the students to buy the expensive books for his classes, when they are already paying high tuition and fees to attend schools.

"I think it's immoral because of the cost of it," Hammond told the Central Utah Daily Herald.

Hammond instead of giving his students textbooks, he assigns his students journal articles, reading materials from the library or from the internet. If every one of the professor does the same, they could save students on an average $900 a year. Hammond rewrote his syllabus for the courses he is teaching.

I hope other professors and schools will do the same, but sadly many of them publish their own books and gives them additional earnings, so I doubt they will change their way. They put new editions every year, with hardly any changes, the total changes will constitute less than 1% of the book, but force the students to buy newer books at a high price.

If Ron Hammond is successful or if he is allowed to do this alternative without any interference from the school, it will be a good one for the students. They can offer many lessons via the web in electronic formats and share it easily instead of printing them on books.