A bill was introduced into the U.S. Senate that would create a competitive grant program to create open educational textbooks – meaning textbooks that are freely available online. The bill, called the Affordable College Textbook Act, was introduced by Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Al Franken (D-MN).
Senate bill 1704: A bill to expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s1704
