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| Expensive books exploit students The Keystone You stand in a line for 30 minutes with your hands full of heavy college textbooks. When it's finally your turn, you walk up to the cash register and plop all of your books onto the counter. The exhausted cashier scans each book and places them into a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 5 W.Va. high schools to study Kanawha County Textbook War of 1974 through ... The Republic WVU's College of Human Resources and the West Virginia Humanities Council will host a public reception to celebrate its launch Thursday in Morgantown. "The cultural war is still alive and well today, as seen in the censorship that occurs when textbooks ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| To buy or not to buy? ACC students can opt for textbook rental program Your Houston News College textbooks are becoming increasing expensive. So, to help students struggling with the high cost of textbooks, Alvin Community College now offers their students a textbook rental program. The Alvin College Store began the renting program during ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| CampusBookRentals.com Customers Flock to Facebook to Share Positive Textbook ... MarketWatch (press release) Stay amazing please," wrote fan Jasmine M. "We have the most amazing customers and fans who really believe in our model of renting college textbooks at an extremely reduced cost, and we couldn't be happier that they are using social media to help us ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| South Floridians use Web to scout colleges Orlando Sentinel ... which works like a Craigslist for college students, allowing them to trade or barter for goods and services. "It's really convenient and I can sell my current textbooks after the semester and even buy new ones for next semester," Sarnese said. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Students go to college free to learn electrician trade that's needed in NE ... The Republic Gillette College received a $388743 grant from the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services to cover tuition and fees for two groups of 12 students, the wages of a full-time instructor, Materials fees, most of the textbooks (the company is picking up ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Inkling's iPad cookbook is selling like crazy GigaOm 10, 2011, 3:45pm PT 3 Comments Inkling, the San Francisco startup that develops interactive iPad versions of college textbooks, made its first big step in courting the mainstream consumer a few weeks ago when it debuted its version of The Professional ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Balto. Co. schools spent $5M on books, curriculum despite warnings Baltimore Sun He added that as teachers are trained in the new standards, the books are being sent from the warehouse to schools. Hairston noted that the district had already added a rigorous College Board program for math and language arts to augment the curriculum ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Part 1: Answers to Your Questions on Scholarships and Student Loans New York Times (blog) Consider ways to economize on college costs, like buying used textbooks and/or selling the textbooks back to the bookstore at the end of the semester, minimizing trips home from school and reducing personal expenses. Eating out once a week may seem ... See all stories on this topic » |
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011
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| E-reader textbooks now available The Reflector online Amazon is also offering an e-textbook rental program for Kindle users. The e-textbooks, though, are designed to be readable on any device that has the ... | ||
| Bookstore looks to reduce textbook costs with ASUM's help Montana Kaimin "What we see now is that the short-term solutions we have found, which are the used book market and rental textbooks, are the reasons why textbook prices ... | ||
| Textbook rentals increase 87 percent, students benefit Media Newswire When Penn State initiated textbook rentals for the 2010-11 school year, the expectation was that students potentially could save money on classroom material ... | ||
| Bookstore competitor saves students money Jamestown News In fact, 55 percent of students at GTCC are on some type of financial aid, so saving costs on textbooks can sometimes mean being able to pay for rent or ... |
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| Odigia Technology through Wake Forest University Launches 21st Century ... MarketWatch (press release) Through a $249000 grant from the Next Generation Learning Challenge, the University and Odigia have created BioBook(TM), an interactive replacement for the traditional college-level biology textbook. This project puts the power of learning into the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Miami Dade College campus safety official fired MiamiHerald.com By Monique O. Madan The top public safety official at Miami Dade College's West Campus in Doral has been fired after being accused of selling textbooks from lost-and-found, according to a notice of termination. Hector Pujadas, the West Campus assistant ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Flat World Knowledge Wins People's Choice Award for Most Affordable Provider ... Pressitt (press release) IRVINGTON, NY – November 7, 2011 –Flat World Knowledge, the largest publisher of open college textbooks, today announced it was named Best Discount Textbook Provider by the Education Resources People's Choice Awards, sponsored by Education-Portal.com, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Washington to start free textbook program Western Front Washington state may have a solution, as it is the first state to start a program focused on free textbooks. The program, called the Open Course Library, gives college faculty access to free online materials compiled by other educators and experts. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| How to be book (buying) smart MyWebTimes.com Do you want to ask Northern Illinois University student and Streator resident Paul Durdan for the inside scoop on saving money with college textbook purchases? Be prepared to sit down. It might take a while. The NIU bookstore employee speaks both from ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Iowa Lakes to introduce textbook rental option Spencer Daily Reporter Students at Iowa Lakes Community College will have the option to 'rent' their textbooks starting this spring. The pilot program will be available on a select number of the most popular textbooks. This option is in addition to a guaranteed Book Buyback ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Police Report: Textbooks Stolen; Pillow Fight Patch.com A textbook reportedly was stolen from a dorm room at 5:36 pm Monday in the 200 block of East College Avenue. The textbook was worth about $100. A student reported the theft of $15 and a textbook valued between $300 and $400 at 7 pm Monday in the 200 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Professors rethink need for textbooks Wausau Daily Herald With technology offering so many other resources and with ever-increasing tuition prices, college professors across the country are deciding that the once ubiquitous textbook might not be needed for every class after all, said John Curtis, ... See all stories on this topic » |
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
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| The new economics of the textbook business The Daily Deal And it's the view of Xplana and others that this freedom -- student options to buy or to rent textbooks, in new or used versions, in print, ... | ||
| Barnes and Noble – Not Just for Books Anymore FleshEatingZipper Improve your selection of digital text books, and make it easy to rent textbooks from your website. Make it easier to rent a book from libraries, ... | ||
| Coop Revisits Its Role in University Harvard Crimson This fall, the Coop began renting textbooks. Across the college textbook ... Instead of selling the book back to the Coop as used, students can rent it at ... | ||
| Amazon Kindle Keyboard 3G Review LAPTOP Magazine Most of the changes, such as library lending and textbook rentals, happen in the Kindle Store, ... Students can rent Kindle textbooks for 30 to 360 days. ... | ||
| Bookstore or internet: What do students prefer? Lariat Saddleback College Some bookstores even allow students to rent books for cheaper than the original price instead of buying the book and reselling it. ... | ||
| Barnes & Noble College Textbooks Options Will Save Students More ... Benzinga The company, which was the first major retailer to offer a multi-channel textbook rental program, announced it has expanded that highly successful program ... | ||
| The State and OER Inside Higher Ed Because of the high cost of textbooks from commercial publishers, many students try to keep up without the book, he said. Others do buy or rent a copy, ... | ||
| Balancing Technology in Our Schools Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun The Munster, Indiana school district recently replaced textbooks with laptops. The fee to rent a laptop for the year plus insurance remained the same as the ... | ||
| Trade And Payments Theory In A Financialized Economy – Analysis Eurasia Review The idea of unearned income came in time to be applied to land rent. ... The textbook formula MV = PT means money (M) times the velocity of turnover (V) ... |
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| Low-cost textbooks for college students make debut The Seattle Times The state community-college board is creating low-cost textbooks and course materials and distributing them online for free in a new program that rolled out Monday. By Katherine Long This is awesome. One of the biggest expenses for students is ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Students could save millions on open source texts The Seattle Times College students in Washington state will be the first beneficiaries of a state project to make inexpensive, open source textbooks available for the most popular college classes. By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP Associated Press Take your career to new ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Saving Textbook Receipts Could Save College Students up to $2500 Sacramento Bee The credit covers textbooks and other course material expenses – as well as tuition and fees not covered by scholarships or grants up to $2500 each year for the first four years of college. Forty percent of the credit is refundable. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Should textbooks really cost $200? MSN Money In a world where you can download a best-seller for $10 to $13, the price of college textbooks seems pretty egregious. It's not unusual for a hardcover full-color textbook to cost $200 or more. Surely, it's time to fight back again greedy publishers ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Pearson, Knewton Team Up To Personalize College Forbes A partnership announced today between Knewton, a New York City startup, and Pearson, the world's biggest publisher of print and online textbooks, may offer some help with this challenge. Knewton, founded in 2008, has created adaptive learning software ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bookstore or internet: What do students prefer? Lariat Saddleback College Whether you go online or the bookstore, most students on the poll or survey at Saddleback have said that they really need books either way in order to function in their classes. For those who to go to the bookstore to get textbooks, the college ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| iPad textbook startup Inkling goes mainstream with cookbook launch GigaOm Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis tells me that Inkling's bread and butter will continue to be bringing interactive versions of college textbooks to the iPad, but that this is the first of a series of new titles that the company expects will bridge the gap ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Torch: College Visits and Fairs Alleviate Scares my.hsj.org As the end of high school rolls around, many students trade turning the pages of their textbooks for turning the pages of college brochures to study up on some much needed information. Fortunately for Dominion students, opportunities to meet with ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| College-tuition calculators have their drawbacks The Olympian And it's good that colleges are being required to inform families about the true cost of college - from tuition and textbooks to transportation and room and board. That's right - calculators, plural. While the Department of Education came up with a net ... See all stories on this topic » |
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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| West Kentucky Community and Technical College Embraces Elsevier's Digital ... PR Newswire (press release) During the program, students take various courses that utilize Elsevier's Pageburst™, a content delivery platform that allows users access to an entire library of Elsevier's digital textbooks. Pageburst gives instructors the opportunity to integrate ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Follett Higher Education Group's Rent-A-Text Saves Students Nearly $90 Million ... PR Newswire (press release) During the fall semester, "Guide to First-Year Composition" (CafeCustom) topped the charts as the best selling digital title, and students at Florida State College at Jacksonville bought the most digital textbooks. Students at Ivy Tech Community ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Word Balloons: OU professor writes graphic novel textbooks NewsOK.com Short thinks the results are even better than those from a college textbook. Short said several student evaluations have said one of his graphic novels is the best book they've had in their college careers. But not only students are interested ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Steve Jobs Biography Hints At What's To Come From Apple: Textbooks, TVs And More Huffington Post In 1997, she co-founded College Track, a non-profit that aims to increase the number of low-income students who graduate from high-school and go on to receive college degrees. Isaacson's biography also provides a glimpse into Apple's corporate politics ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Schools focus on science, math to develop problem solvers Greensboro News & Record By Morgan Josey Glover In Kim Forbes' classroom — behind the boomerang-shaped desks, power tools, computers, wind tunnel and slew of competition trophies — is a case full of technology textbooks. Instead, they design video games, create cold-case ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Less paper, more money PUC Chronicle With the majority of PUC students now using smartphones, e- readers and tablet PCs, it seems that not lugging around 50 pounds or more of textbooks per day could be a lot easier on our backs and our wallets. The average college textbook comes at a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fairport launches its early drive for college (with video) News-Herald.com The students will use the new technology for class assignments and activities, research and to access some of their online textbooks. Internet usage and other notebook tools will be closely watched by administrators and parents. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| A Sign of the Times PC The Cowl For 27 years, the Off-Campus Bookstore has provided PC students with an alternative means of purchasing textbooks—one that, unlike many corporate bookstores, guaranteed the books to be on the shelves by the first day of class, and provided lower ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Westwood College and KidsTek Partner to Deliver Technology Equipment and Work ... MarketWatch (press release) High Tech Early College is one of four high school options for DPS freshman who would have attended Montbello High School this year. Westwood College's support of DPS extends beyond the $50000 donation, comprised of equipment, textbooks and staff time, ... See all stories on this topic » |
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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| Textbook reseller moves in at accelerator Windsor Star ... incurred by university students involves textbooks, a small Windsor company is launching a web-based business offering used books for sale or rent. ... | ||
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| BookRenter Hires Senior Executive to Advance Institutional ... MarketWatch About BookRenter BookRenter founded the first textbook rental service in 2006 with a mission to make education more affordable by allowing students to rent ... | ||
| Paw Print: Student creates financial help site Towerlight ... for some students because of the burdens of textbook prices, loans and other costs. ... "I also use renting websites such as Chegg and Bookrenter, ... | ||
| BookRenter Hires Senior Executive to Advance Institutional ... Marketwire BookRenter founded the first textbook rental service in 2006 with a mission to make education more affordable by allowing students to rent textbooks for up ... | ||
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| Churchill Student Contributes to College Textbook Patch.com Because the extracurricular activity that Mattis was involved in was a college level textbook on which he was collaborating. "Whenever my schoolwork load was heavy I'd ask my aunt, who is the chairperson for the department of psychology at NYU, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Associated Students offers plan for more access to textbooks at SMC The Corsair At the Associated Student Board meeting on Monday Oct. 3, AS Director of Instructional Support, Marco Vivero, proposed purchasing more textbooks as a student resource to be put on reserve at the Santa Monica College library. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| E-textbook saves UNH business students $70K Seacoastonline.com Textbook prices have increased 22 percent over the last four years, quadruple inflation, according to the Student Public Interest Research Groups. The College Board estimates that students spend an average of $1137 for textbooks and supplies each year. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Chegg Launches New Initiative With Bing Rewards to Help College Students Save ... MarketWatch (press release) Now college and college-bound students can get additional cost savings by joining Bing Rewards and earning gift cards for Chegg's textbook rentals and homework help. "We wanted to engage our growing member base of college students in a way that is ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| ROBERT STONE AND JON R. MILLER: E-textbook makers will have to overcome ... The Idaho Statesman Have you been in a college bookstore lately? It's a pretty scary place, and not just because blue and orange or silver and gold are not your best sweatshirt colors. If you are in college or have kids who are, you know the frightening cost of textbooks. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cengage Learning Announces a New First Edition Applied Calculus Text Designed ... MarketWatch (press release) "A textbook that simplifies applied calculus to a point where any student with the prerequisites can understand the concepts and be successful in the course," said Salvatore Sciandra, Niagara County Community College. This accessible and modern ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Facebook post gets Catawba Valley Community College student in trouble Hickory Daily Record The additional money can be used for textbooks and living expenses. In the past, CVCC did what most schools do. It issued checks to the students for the amount of their financial aid beyond tuition. Now the school pays Higher One to handle the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| CourseSmart® Makes It Easy to Access Digital Course Materials Through Custom ... MarketWatch (press release) ... feature and deep content linking using the College's D2L platform while also developing an innovative textbook pricing model which helped us to reduce student costs," said Judy Lowe, assistant vice president at Chattanooga State Community College. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Interest growing in college courses Morning Sentinel "I think it helps bridge the gap between high school and college," he said about the online course. Students are required to pay KVCC student fees of about $60 for each class, plus textbooks. The students are "saving on what they would pay if they did ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| My College Yard Sale Marks New Era In Virtual Marketplace MarketWatch (press release) Already it is establishing itself as niche for buying and selling textbooks, which typically place a large strain on a student's budget. Tortorella noted that this website is going to cater to college students everywhere, and give them a break from all ... See all stories on this topic » |
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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| Who will dominate the electronic textbook market? WBRC With Amazon, students can rent a book for as little as 30 days to as many as 360 days. ... The option to rent an e-textbook for a short period can offer ... | ||
| Textbook example Ashland Daily Tidings Allen lauded SOU's bookstore for recently offering book rentals, in which students can rent a text for 30 to 120 days at a fourth to half the retail price. ... | ||
| Book price comparison available The Grand Views Currently, textbooks can only be purchased through the comparison shopper and book rentals must be done at the bookstore. The comparative website became ... | ||
| New Trier to discuss athletics fees to subsidize textbook costs TribLocal By John P. Huston TribLocal reporter Today at 8:31 am As textbook costs increase, ... That led the district to allowing students to rent books from the ... | ||
| Chegg Aims Discounts at Students, Shares College Demo Insights ADOTAS ... textbook rentals, e-textbooks, course selection and homework assistance. ... things like rent or health care, which leaves more discretionary funds. ... | ||
| Seol '14: A novel solution to the textbook problem The Brown Daily Herald Students may rent textbooks or borrow them from their schools' libraries or through systems like interlibrary loaning. Cao lambasts high tuition for being ... | ||
| This Was Newtown: 1933 Patch.com Mr. Mohr is now collating material for another book which he plans to publish ... $196.75; Rent of fire plugs, $157.50; Ice & Trading Co., supplies, $37.20; ... |
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