Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Google Alert - rent textbook

News8 new results for rent textbook
NY senator calls for expansion of textbook rentals
BusinessWeek
New York University, which has a deal to rent textbooks with Bookrenter.com, said demand for its programs has come from students. ...
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Textbook Rental Firm Chegg Raises $75 Million More
paidContent.org
Already heavily-backed textbook rental firm Chegg has added another $75 million. The company's service, which lets students rent textbooks so they don't ...
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Rental textbooks come to bookstore
Drexel University The Triangle Online
The Drexel University bookstore is now part of a select group of university bookstores that will allow students to rent required textbooks for the duration ...
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Textbook rental program deemed success
Baylor University The Lariat Online
"Our company did a lot of advertising, but there's still some students asking the question, 'Can I rent a book?' They didn't realize they could rent them. ...
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Some UNL students opting to rent textbooks
Lincoln Journal Star
"Why not rent it?" Nebraska Bookstore began renting selected textbooks for the 2010 spring semester, and it allowed students to rent any textbook in the ...
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Cracking open a good . . . rental?
Ottawa Business Journal
Locally, the University of Ottawa has "no textbook rental system for the time being," noted spokesperson Nadine Saint-Amour in an e-mail. ...
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Students take advantage of textbook rental program
The Pendulum
Rather than buying new or used copies of the books, Watkins took advantage of a new book rental program available to students. Operated through Barnes and ...
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Google Alert - college textbooks

News9 new results for college textbooks
Online Text Book Rental Site Raises $75 Million in Funding
Softpedia
Selling and renting college textbooks is a $10 billion a year business in the US. The company says it offers its services to about 7000 colleges and ...
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Renting Textbooks Saves Students Money
LocalNews8.com
According to USA Today, since 1994 the price of college textbooks has gone up four times faster than the inflation rate.
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SHU Addresses Textbook Sticker Shock
Patch
By Marcia Worth Email the author September 22, 2010 If school supply shopping is dizzying, buying college textbooks is likely to induce serious sticker ...
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Renting, swapping cuts book prices for students
Daily Northwestern
As lines stretched to the back wall of Norris Bookstore Monday afternoon, the air buzzed with conversation about the high costs of college textbooks. ...
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Skyrocketing prices
Campus Times
 If these two suggestions are followed through over the next few years, college textbooks could finally lose their long-accepted status as a large ...
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Chuck Battles for College Book Bucks »
New York Daily News (blog)
Chuck Schumer is no exception, so he's out today with an easy-to-understand pitch to help college kids afford textbooks: expand a program that lets them ...
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New textbook law gives students more pricing information
WalletPop (blog)
There are provisions for publishers and college bookstores as well. Publishers must provide to the professor or entity that purchases the textbooks pricing ...
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