Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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Textbook rental programs pay off for students
The Independent Florida Alligator
This academic year, the UF Bookstore is running a textbook rental program that saved students a total of more than half a million dollars in the summer and ...
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Cabrillo College Takes Its Textbook Rental Program Online
KIONrightnow.com
APTOS, Calif- The Cabrillo College Bookstore announced that it will partner with CHEGG, an online textbook rental company, to provide students with a ...
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Just one reader, good condition
Catskill Daily Mail
According to NACS, students can rent a textbook at a third to half the cost of buying. Historically, students have had only one choice: Buy the book and ...
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Number of College Stores Offering Textbook Rentals Escalates
PR Newswire (press release)
Students can typically rent a textbook for between 33% and 55% of the price of buying a new textbook. NACS originally estimated the number of college stores ...
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Majoring in savings
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
She was able to rent a textbook that costs $185 new for $54, she said. "I like that Barnes & Noble, as opposed to some websites (that offer book rentals), ...
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Wilkes Barre Times-Leader


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News10 new results for college textbooks
Renting textbooks, online shopping ease price bind
Chicago Tribune
By Carolyn Bigda, Special to Tribune Newspapers College textbooks aren't getting any cheaper. The average full-time student spent nearly $700 per year on ...
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SellUsedBooks.com Announces Winner of Sell Used Books College Essay Contest
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The Sell Used Books College Essay Contest winner has been announced. The winner will receive $1000 from the site that allows students to sell used books. ...
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The Soaring Price of College Textbooks: Students at Cascadia Community College ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The soaring price of college textbooks is one of the major concerns students will be sharing with their legislators this Thursday, January 27 when students ...
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Exeter grad sees opportunity in pricey college textbooks
Reading Eagle
... that enables students to sell used textbooks and other course materials for higher prices than they might get in a buyback from the college bookstore. ...
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Bertelsmann backs open textbook publisher
Financial Times
By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York Bertelsmann, the German media group, is leading a $15m funding round for Flat World Knowledge, a college textbook ...
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Bertelsmann Invests in Open Textbook Co. Flat World
NY Convergence
... the controversial company that gives away college textbooks for free on the web, but charges for printed versions, e-books, audio books, PDF downloads ...
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Colleges turn to textbook rentals
Allentown Morning Call
By Christopher Baxter, OF THE MORNING CALL When Muhlenberg College sophomore Brooke Sunshine set out Monday on the expensive task of buying textbooks for ...
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Allentown Morning Call
CollegeTextbooks: How To Get Best Deals On Textbooks
Connecticut Watchdog
... to get the best deals on college textbooks, a process made difficult by some colleges and professors who unconscionably profit off of students' pain. ...
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Connecticut Watchdog
University Bookstore price comparison saves money
BG News
By Alex Aspacher, Reporter Students have many options to combat the consistently rising cost of college textbooks, including a price comparison feature that ...
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Crafton Hills, SB Valley College offer textbook rental system
Press-Enterprise
"The colleges' textbook rental program is an extremely popular way for students to save money on textbooks," said Gloriann Chavez, Valley College bookstore ...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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Online textbook-rental programs growing
Oklahoma Daily
The ability to rent textbooks is spreading, and students are saving money as a result. In the fall 2010 semester, the University Bookstore implemented ...
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Rent-a-Text, e-books save students money
The Voyager
As UWF gave students the option to rent textbooks last year, 1500 other four-year college and university bookstores around the country did also, ...
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Rent-A-Text program meets with approval
Maroon
Rental textbooks are offered to Loyola University students. In fall 2010, Loyola University offered textbook rental services at the university bookstore for ...
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Textbook rentals help community colleges reduce students' costs
Wrangler News
Statistics show that during the semester, Maricopa students paid a total of $933000 for rental textbooks, $1.14 million less than would have been paid for ...
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A&T bookstore offers textbook rental program
A & T Register
By Chanel Davis This semester, the A&T campus bookstore, offers its students the opportunity to take part in its textbook rental, a program designed to ...
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Company Offers Free Textbook Rentals
KETV Omaha
We're seeing on average 20 percent of students rent textbooks where the rest purchase them," Riedman said. Nebraska Book Company has launched a new website ...
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ValoreBooks launches "Ship Off to Spring Break" Campaign
PRLog.Org (press release)
Individuals who rent textbooks from ValoreBooks.com between December 30, 2010 and February 18, 2011 are automatically entered. Those who don't rent ...
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Textbook rentals a success, store managers say CMU Bookstore now offers 300 ...
Central Michigan Life
Peterson opts to rent her textbooks because of the low cost. (Photo by Paige Calamari/Staff Photographer) Only one thing can stress students out the very ...
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Central Michigan Life


Google Alert - college textbooks

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Easily accessed, inexpensive e-books create buzz with students
St. Cloud Times
The electronic books can be downloaded and read on laptop or desktop computers or electronic readers. The Technical & Community College books can be read by ...
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13 WTHRIndiana Goodwill store offers cheap college textbooks
WTHR
... Entertainment News from AP Clarksville, IN - College students are always looking to save money, especially since they spend so much cash to buy books. ...
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Stolen college textbooks worth $1400
Greensboro News & Record
GREENSBORO -- An Oxford man faces a felony charge of larceny for allegedly stealing nearly $1400 in textbooks, arrest warrants show. ...
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IU students help peers shop around for textbooks
Chicago Tribune
AP Two Indiana University students frustrated with the cost of college textbooks are trying to lower those costs through an online site that lets students ...
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Amazon Offers upto 90% Off for Used TextBooks
Tech Pinger
Why rent college textbooks? Discover great textbook deals on millions of new and used titles in our Textbook Store and when you're ready, sell back your ...
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Textbook Law Compliance Dwindles
Georgetown University The Hoya
The Higher Education Opportunity Act, passed in 2008 and implemented on July 1 2010, was pitched as a way to make college textbooks more affordable for ...
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Textbook Rentals: Kill the Long Bill
MyFox Houston
HOUSTON - Maura Shelton, a freshman creative writing major at the University of Houston, has hundreds of reasons to rent, not buy, her college textbooks. ...
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MyFox Houston
Students slow on the e-book up-take
MobyLives
But the Shreveport Times reports, "When it comes to buying college textbooks, students have options — new, used or digital. But for a generation of college ...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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UTB-TSC bookstore offers new textbook rental options
Brownsville Herald
"It's been quite a change," Rodriguez says. "A lot of the students go out there and buy them or rent (textbooks) online. It has affected us in a big way."
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Google Alert - college textbooks

News10 new results for college textbooks
College Students Trade In Textbooks For E-Books
WFMY News 2
Elon, NC -- More people are using Kindles, e-books and electronic readers, which means real books and even college textbooks are slowly disappearing. ...
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Beating the textbook cost game
Deseret News
With school starting last week at BYU, and this week at public institutions like the University of Utah, the rising cost of college textbooks is a growing ...
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Deseret News
Textbook rental options grow, AS bookstore to begin rental system; method for ...
Western Front
Daylynn Liptac, the general manager of The College Store, said the store began renting out textbooks to students a year ago. The store started with 500 ...
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75% Of College Students Prefer Print Textbooks
mediabistro.com
By Dianna Dilworth on January 6, 2011 3:35 PM While college students may love their technology, they don't want it in their textbooks. ...
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MC Bookstore expanding students' rental choices
Maryville Daily Times
The average college student spends about $500 per semester on textbooks, so it's no surprise that the high cost of textbooks continues to be a common ...
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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Google Alert - rent textbook

News3 new results for rent textbook
Chicago Area Colleges to Rent Textbooks to Students
Classes2Careers News
This textbook rental idea could just be the start of out of the box thinking by college administrators. Perhaps moving all of the course materials online is ...
MSU Bookstore evaluating textbook rental program
News-Leader.com
By Didi Tang A Missouri State University Bookstore official says the school learned a lot from a pilot book rental program, but there are no plans to expand ...
Cheap Textbook Rentals offers rental price comparison service

Cheap-Textbook-Rentals-com compares and posts the current rental prices fromover a dozen textbook rental sites. With students renting textbooks more than ever knowing who is charging what can save students a lot of cash.


Google Alert - college textbooks

News4 new results for college textbooks
Community colleges try renting textbooks to students
Chicago Tribune
The skyrocketing cost of college textbooks has become a hot topic, as it moved from an incidental expense to a major line item on the family budget. ...
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Colleges to Rent Textbooks to Students
MyFox Chicago
Chicago - To fight the high cost of college textbooks, some community colleges in the Chicago area are now renting books to students. ...
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College textbooks might be a large part of college expenses
BlogHer (blog)
Well you are going to save funds by purchasing discounted college textbooks. You can save a great deal of dollars by shopping about for college textbooks. ...
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Rumor: Apple prepping three iPad 2 versions
CNET (blog)
My friend's son purchased one in anticipation of his college books going digital. I remember when Apple was all about the student, I guess they've fallen ...
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CNET (blog)