Dear Committee Members:
On behalf of the coalition partners of the Affordable Textbooks Campaign, thank you for the opportunity to offer our comments to the proposed study plan, and for the chance to come before the committee in person.
Per your request, I will limit my oral comments to the proposed study design, and include a slightly longer response to Dr. James V. Koch’s overall proposal in the written comments below. I have divided my written comments into two parts: the framing of the problem, and the various policy solutions available (including the proposed study design).