Use Your Favorite Textbooks in an Interactive, Adaptive Format

Only books that are not open-source require a license. These are typically commercial textbooks from our partner publishers. On the bookshelf, licensed books are marked with a icon, while open-source books show a icon. All open-source books on Alps are free to use.

License costs vary by title and are typically close to the price of the physical or e-book edition. You need one license per student who will use the book. You can see the exact price yourself: open the title in the Library and click Purchase License to build a quote for your school — no email, no sales call.

It is self-serve. (1) Open the title in the Library and click Purchase License, which builds a quote for your school. (2) Confirm your classes and, for a sharper price, how many students are in each. (3) Click Get invoice on the quote. (4) Pay by ACH bank transfer (preferred) or by check — remit details and a W-9 are on the invoice itself — then click Mark paid with your reference. Access starts as soon as the invoice is issued, so nobody waits for the payment to clear.

Co-teachers can use the license only if the licensed teacher is part of the course section and there are sufficient licenses to cover all students enrolled in the section. Each student needs their own license regardless of which teacher is instructing them.

We would love to help! Please introduce us to your publisher by emailing sales@alps.2sigma.us. We will work with them to transform their content into an interactive, adaptive edition on Alps.

It depends on the kind of school. K-12 schools always pay centrally — nothing in Alps ever bills a K-12 student. Higher education chooses: the department can buy for the whole class, students can buy their own access, or both. Which one applies is settled on the quote when you purchase. Where students pay, each one handles their own access on their Course Access page — paying online, or redeeming a code from the campus bookstore — and the professor is not in the middle of it.

Email sales@alps.2sigma.us with the title and the quantity and we will send a bulk quote and an invoice. Once the invoice is settled you receive that many redemption codes, which you sell the way you sell any other access code. A student redeems one on their Course Access page in Alps — codes look like ALPS-4K2M-99XT-QW10 — and the title unlocks straight away. No card needed at any point.