Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Google Alert - college textbooks

News 10 new results for college textbooks
More and more, college students go buy the e-books
Boston Globe
Although college textbooks have been available digitally starting about a decade ago, business started picking up within the last year as e-reader technology improved and prices dropped. Roth predicts a "pretty dramatic increase'' in e-textbook sales ...
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Boston Globe
Cost of College Textbooks is Outrageous
Patch.com
My 17 year old daughter is starting her second year of the Running Start program at Green River Community College (GRCC) in Auburn. I am appalled at the cost of textbooks, especially compared to when I went to college a little more than two decades ...
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Students Purchasing More E-Textbooks
City Town Info Education Channel
As the cost of college textbooks continues to rise, students and institutions are increasingly moving towards electronic textbooks. In a nod to the trend, the Boston Globe reported that many campus bookstores have significantly increased the number of ...
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City Town Info Education Channel
Buying College Textbooks? SwoopThat Hunts Down Your Best Deals
DailyFinance
The search for deals on textbooks can be a cat-and-mouse game: Students must weigh the convenience and full-retail prices of on-campus stores versus the more prolonged effort of hunting down used books, discount deals or rentals on the Web. ...
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Venting about college textbook costs (Julie Mack blog)
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
The single most outrageous price: A $100 rental fee for a 300-page paperback textbook for political science. It was used, incidentally. Her other option was purchasing it new for $150. There are many infuriating aspects of college costs. ...
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Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
eCampus.com Teams Up With the "Mindset List" to Create Visual Snapshots of a ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Since its founding in July of 1999, eCampus.com has grown into a major online retailer providing cheap textbooks for college and high school students. eCampus.com's stated mission is to provide the easiest, fastest, and cheapest way for college and ...
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Textbooks for cash
The Roundup
The Student Store was packed with students buying and selling books on the first day of the Fall semester at Pierce College. The Pierce College Textbook Buyback is located behind CopyTech and available to students now. The Buyback is open Monday ...
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Review: Toshiba Thrive tablet is beautiful . . . on the inside
New York Daily News
College textbooks are fat. Shaquille O'Neal, even at his most dominant, was fat. And the Toshiba Thrive is fat. It's the first thing you'll notice about the chubby little tablet PC, and it has nothing to do with size discrimination. ...
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New York Daily News
NJPIRG tour raises awareness on cheaper textbook options
RU Daily Targum
The event, called the "Textbook Rebellion" and held on the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus, was part of a national tour of 40 campuses that aims to bring awareness about the high costs of textbooks to college students. ...
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