Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Google Alert - textbooks

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CONSUMER FINANCE:Textbook Rentals Save College Students Money
Wall Street Journal
She no longer buys textbooks for her classes. But Ornellas isn't forced to beg, borrow and copy. Instead, the business management major at San Jose State ...
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Can the founders of Sun Microsystems finally break our textbook habit?
ZDNet (blog)
By Christopher Dawson August 3, 2010, 11:22pm PDT The time is ripe for a drastic change in the educational textbook market. Can the CEO of the now defunct ...
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How to Find Cheaper College Textbooks
New York Times (blog)
By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD You might call it the college student's first lesson in exploitation: paying $100 for a textbook, then getting a mere $12 when ...
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FYI: Some help with college textbook prices
CNBC
The fall semester is around the corner, meaning college students will soon be shelling out big money for textbooks. The College Board estimates that ...
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Barnes & Noble Unveils 'Nook Study' App, Textbook Rentals
PC Magazine
Barnes & Noble on Tuesday announced a new Web-based textbook rental service as well as Nook Study, a software download for college students that lets them ...
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Liberia: US Delivers Textbooks to MOE
AllAfrica.com
The United States Government, through it's agency for international development (USAID) handed over more than 310000 textbooks, at a cost of US$1.5 million, ...
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Savings 4 You: College textbooks
WIVB
In Melissa Holmes' Savings 4 You Wednesday, college kids will soon be dropping hundreds of dollars on textbooks. But Holmes has got some tricks to saving ...
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Ways to lower college expenses: Buy used textbooks
Helium
by Matt Bird One of the biggest costs associated with attending school - aside from tuition itself - is buying textbooks. Though a necessity of life, ...
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Thomas Frank: Glenn Beck and Our 'Stolen' History
Wall Street Journal
"Progressives have been changing history for about 100 years," the entertainer intoned, sitting next to a pile of textbooks. "They knew they had to separate ...
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Deciding whether to buy new or used college textbooks
Helium
... item into one that is ludicrously so, so purchasing the all-important and important textbook will usually be done with an eye toward saving money. ...
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