Textbooks cost hundreds of dollars currently.

Fox News reports.

Lawmakers push bill aimed at soaring college textbook costs

Congressional lawmakers are exploring a new tactic for reducing soaring college costs, pushing a plan to help students access online textbooks for free as opposed to spending hundreds of dollars on print versions.

According to The College Board, the average college student at a public school spends about $1,200 a year on textbooks. Like tuition and other college costs, this too has been on an upward trajectory — print textbook prices have soared 82 percent in the last decade alone, according to data from the Government Accountability Office.

The Affordable College Textbook Act, a plan to shave these costs that has been pushed before to little success, was re-introduced Oct. 8 by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., in the Senate and Rep. Rubén Hinojosa, D-Texas, in the House, along with Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn.; Sen. Angus King, I-Maine; and Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo.