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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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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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 ... See all stories on this topic » |
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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. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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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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| 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. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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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, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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, ... See all stories on this topic » |
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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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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 . ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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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, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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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. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 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. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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