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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 » |
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