Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Google Alert - rent textbook

News7 new results for rent textbook
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

News10 new results for college textbooks
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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KVAL
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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Gearlog (blog)
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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