--- title: Free Books Can Make College More Affordable description: Free books can make college more affordable, the hardest part of the battle for Mosul will be after the last shot is fired and more. canonical: https://time.com/4536516/free-books-can-make-college-more-affordable/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-19T16:00:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:24.949Z article:section: Ideas og:title: One fast way to make college more affordable: free books. og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4536516/free-books-can-make-college-more-affordable/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: One fast way to make college more affordable: free books. twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Free Books Can Make College More Affordable by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 19, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 19, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**One fast way to make college more affordable: free books.**](http://hechingerreport.org/a-possible-solution-to-one-college-cost-problem-free-books/) By Nichole Dobo in the Hechinger Report **2\.** [**The hardest part of the battle for Mosul will be after the last shot is fired.**](https://lawfareblog.com/truly-winning-battle-mosul) By Daniel Byman in Lawfare **3\.** [**Half of us are in some law enforcement face recognition network. These systems need oversight.**](https://www.perpetuallineup.org/) By Clare Garvie, Alvaro Bedoya and Jonathan Frankle at the Georgetown Center on Privacy and Technology **4\.** [**Your Kickstarter idea could be on sale in China before you’re done funding it.**](http://qz.com/771727/chinas-factories-in-shenzhen-can-copy-products-at-breakneck-speed-and-its-time-for-the-rest-of-the-world-to-get-over-it/) By Josh Horwitz in Quartz **5\.** [**How smaller roles at work can still lead to the corner office.**](http://fortune.com/2016/10/16/margaret-keane-synchrony-financial/) By Margaret Keane in Fortune  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4536516/free-books-can-make-college-more-affordable/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4536516/free-books-can-make-college-more-affordable/"},"headline":"Free Books Can Make College More Affordable","datePublished":"2016-10-19T16:00:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:24.949Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4536516/free-books-can-make-college-more-affordable/","keywords":["Innovation","College","Iraq","China","Law Enforcement","productivity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4536516/free-books-can-make-college-more-affordable/","name":"Free Books Can Make College More Affordable"}}]}] ```