Tuesday, October 26, 2010

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Florence-Darlington Tech earns grant for textbook rental program
South Carolina Now
According to US Public Interest Research Group, students who rent their textbooks pay between $130 and $240 per year, compared with $900 or more to purchase ...
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YSU to expand textbook rental program
WFMJ
AP IMPACT: Beef industry woes may mean poorer meat YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - The Youngstown State University bookstore plans to expand a pilot textbook rental ...
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Textbook Rentals
Colby Magazine
Students are now able to rent some textbooks for 40 to 50 percent of the new-book purchase price. "If you don't have the money up front, it can really be a ...
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New way to save money on college textbooks
Historic City News
Students at St. Johns River Community College will have the option to either purchase or rent their textbooks; according to grant development director Carla ...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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Book rentals now an option
Griffon News
Missouri Western students now have the option to rent textbooks from the Barnes and Noble Bookstore on campus. The rental program is a new option offered ...
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Google Alert - college textbooks

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Tips for saving money on college textbooks
Famuan
At the beginning of every semester, college students shell out large sums of money for their textbooks in order to prepare adequately for classes. ...
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ConnPIRG: Lower textbook prices
UConn Daily Campus
In recent years, the price of college textbooks has skyrocketed, making each new semester a struggle for many students pursuing a college education, ...
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Renting, not buying textbooks takes hold on Alfred campuses
Hornell Evening Tribune
By Tyler Briggs Sarah Kernan and Emily Patton know all too well the high cost of college textbooks. The two sophomores at Alfred University have spent ...
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Evaluating Your Performance at the End of a Season
Fast Company
For our company, ValoreBooks.com, renting, buying, and selling college textbooks is very much a seasonal business and our peak periods occur in the summer ...
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YSU Expands Textbook Rental Program
Youngstown Business Journal
The pilot program is, in part, a response to a growing awareness nationwide of the increasing cost of college textbooks and pressure from Congress to rein ...
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In The Public Interest : Decreasing Dropouts, Three Quick Solutions for ...
Huffington Post (blog)
According to the GAO, textbooks are comparable to 72% of tuition for the average community college student. Skyrocketing prices are a consequence of a ...
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Flat World Knowledge President Eric Frank Featured Speaker at Open Access Week ...
Pressitt (press release)
Eric Frank,co-founder and president of Flat World Knowledge, the leading publisher of commercial, openly-licensed college textbooks, will speak on "Open ...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Google Alert - rent textbook

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Bookstore explains high textbook prices
Daily Aztec
Because the bookstore expanded its textbook rental program this fall, ... Almost all textbooks priced at more than $25 were available to rent. ...
Editorial: Textbook rentals a quick fix, but don't do enough
MPNnow.com
Charles Schumer recently urged the National Association of College Stores to encourage its members to expand textbook rental programs. ...
Hansen, Oxenreider look to improve academics
UM Maneater
Outside of the classroom, Hansen and Oxenreider plan to expand upon MU's textbook rental program. "Most students sell back their books at the end of the ...
Rented Books and Custom Pants: Clever Newbies Buck Retail's Downturn
DailyFinance
Chegg claims it can save students an average of $500 a year on textbooks. Customers rent books by the quarter, semester or year, then ship them back free at ...



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Google Alert - college textbooks

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Save money: Rent your textbooks instead
Anchor
"Something that saves you this much money on textbooks shouldn't be kept quiet," he said. This is a solution to the problem of overpriced college textbooks. ...
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College Book Renter Launches Tailgate Giveaway on Facebook
PR Web (press release)
With the costs of college rising, College Book Renter wants to help students save money by offering them the option to rent their college textbooks. ...
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Reservation to get delivery of 20000 books
Rapid City Journal
... high school and college textbooks with Books for International Goodwill, or BIG, said Darla Drew Lerdal, media and community relations coordinator for ...
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Survey shows students prefer printed textbooks; 25 percent prefers digital format
Central Michigan Life
"The problem with that is, only a very small number of students are interested in e-books," he said, "And the perfect device for reading a college textbook ...
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The textbook alternative that could save students $700 per year
eCampus News
By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor College textbooks available for free online or sold in print for low cost could slash students' annual textbook bill from ...
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Report reveals methods to decrease textbook costs
RU Daily Targum
The companies depend on a variety of techniques to ensure college textbook prices stay high, such as bundling compact disks and pass codes into textbooks, ...
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Tuition inflation and the textbook case
BurlingtonFreePress.com (blog)
The second one — What to do about the problem of college textbooks being so expensive — was addressed in a report called "A Cover to Cover Solution" by a ...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010

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Quinnipiac Bookstore Saves Students $400000 Through Rental Program
The Quad News
This semester, the Quinnipiac University bookstore started offering the option to rent textbooks in a fashion similar to Chegg. What may have seemed like a ...
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Schumer Secures Nearly $1 Million For Pratt Textbook Rental Program
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Y.) Wednesday revealed that the Pratt Institute has been awarded $991300 from the US Department of Education to start a rental textbook program that can ...
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ICC booking on rentals being a hit
Peoria Journal Star
The cost to rent a textbook is about one-third the cost of a new purchase. The rental program is available to everyone regardless of income level and has ...
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Program to slash textbook expenses
The News Record
This Fall quarter unveiled a new University of Cincinnati freshman class and a new way to purchase textbooks for class. The Rent-A-Text program, ...
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Pricing out textbooks
The South End
Websites such as Half.com, where you can purchase discounted books, and Chegg.com, where you can rent textbooks, are becoming increasingly popular around ...
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Textbook rental now available in Morehead
MSU The Trail Blazer Online
Some students are seeing a reduction in that cost thanks to a new textbook rental program provided by University Bookstore and eCampus. ...
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Phoenix Bookstore offers textbook rental pilot program
Fourth Estate Newspaper
"It may be a $140 textbook new, $90 for a used copy and its $52.99 to rent a copy," Pockat said. "If you go ahead and figure it's a rental book, ...
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Google Alert - college textbooks

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Spend Less On College Books
lonad News
Just about the most expensive areas of attending college looks like it's the price of the text books nowadays. As most colleges only use a specific book for ...
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In The Public Interest : Open Textbooks and the Tech-Friendly Generation
Huffington Post (blog)
I thought I might have been an extreme case, so I was shocked to learn that in 2003-4 the average college student spent $900 on textbooks . ...
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Forget new or used: students can rent textbooks instead
KVAL
College textbook prices may have changed, but one thing remains the same: students still think books cost too much. Unlike the past, when students only had ...
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Local woman finds way to offer free textbooks to college students
KTVB
It's a place where college students can borrow books for school, free of charge. "I have four kids, and I'm a single mom, and I carry a 40 credit load, ...
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5 unusual things you can rent
Bankrate.com
The price of college textbooks continues to rise. That's why students should seriously consider renting, says Gregory Karp, author of "The 1-2-3 Money Plan: ...
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Bloomberg Businessweek Takes a Look at Flat World
NY Convergence
... profiled in Bloomberg Businessweek as part of a growing trend of tech companies who are providing alternatives to high priced college textbooks. ...
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Analyst: eBooks Replacing Textbooks in Three Years
Gearlog (blog)
According to an upcoming report from the New Media Consortium, students will be able to kiss all of those backbreaking college textbooks goodbye in the next ...
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DMACC offers cheap solution for students
The Campus Chronicle
All college textbooks are not available to rent. The rental availability of a textbook is determined on the quantity of the book used across multiple ...
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E-textbooks: The end of paper and ink?
UNH The New Hampshire (subscription)
Has technology found a functional way to keep students from paying high costs for heavy college textbooks? Maybe. At least it's a change still in the works. ...
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Maher's Monkey Business: Academic travesty and religulous obsession with O'Donnell
Washington Times
The college textbooks that I was issued said the very same things my high school textbooks said in the beginning - that science can never ultimately prove ...
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