Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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Blackwell launches textbook rental
The Bookseller
To this end, Blackwell has been trialling a Textbook Rental Programme in its Manchester University and Oxford Brookes campus stores, which it hopes to roll out across all 70 Blackwell locations in time for peak student trading season in September. ...
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The Bookseller
Book rentals coming to Barnes & Noble
The Tech Talk
Reeves said when you buy a textbook, you are out more money up front, but in the end you might gain from selling the book back. "With a rental, you're not taking any chance at all; it is a done deal," he said. To rent a textbook, a credit card must be ...
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Textbook options available on campus
Observer Online
Kristin Blitch, marketing manager for Notre Dame Retail Operations, said bookstore operations have changed with this year's implementation of the Rent-A-Text textbook rental program. "It's very difficult to predict the total number of books that we'll ...
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Tips On How College Students Can Save On Textbooks
KVIA El Paso
Last year, a new program started encouraging students to "Rent it, don't buy it. " "We rented over 12000 books and the savings to the students was in excess of over $450000," said Badula. All you need to rent a book at UTEP is a credit card. ...
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District 86 Teachers Request Electronic Textbooks for 2011-12
Patch.com
"Students always have the option to get the books as cheaply as possible," Law said, adding that they could purchase used books or even rent books. He cited Amazon.com as a possible low-cost source for textbooks. "That's why the ISBN number is provided ...
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Red Wing School Board briefs: Prices for building rental to increase
Republican Eagle
The new materials are produced by Pearson Education Inc., one of the two main textbook vendors the district uses. But, these new materials are not necessarily just textbooks. Instead they consist of workbooks and online materials. ...
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Amazon Sues College Store Group Over Ads Complaint
ABC News
By RACHEL METZ AP Technology Writer Amazon.com Inc. is asking a judge to declare that the online retailer's ads for discounted new and used college textbooks are neither false nor misleading, contrary to complaints by the trade association that ...
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Picking a Fight
Inside Higher Ed
For years Amazon and other Internet retailers have been moving into a college textbook market that was virtually oligopolistic 15 years ago. Most college towns had only the college-run bookstore and one or two independent shops. ...
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Amazon.com Sues College Stores Association Over Textbook Ads
Bloomberg
By Karen Gullo and Joseph Galante - Tue May 03 22:16:20 GMT 2011 Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the biggest online retailer, sued for a court order declaring that its advertised discounts of 30 percent on new college textbooks and 90 percent on used ones ...
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Entrepreneur has a textbook case for a startup
Houston Chronicle
By SANDRA BRETTING Emely Galvez's used-book website matches up people who are in the market for college textbooks with those who are selling them. As the daughter of entrepreneurs and niece of a successful restaurateur, Emely Galvez, 22, ...
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Flat World Knowledge Celebrates Free Comic Book Day With a Graphic Novel ...
Marketwire (press release)
Flat World Knowledge is the largest publisher of free and open college textbooks for students worldwide. Committed to making higher education more affordable and accessible, the company provides students with free online access to complete, ...
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Woman who buys back textbooks pepper sprayed, robbed of money, books by ...
The Republic
Police in a western Pennsylvania college town are looking for a man who pepper sprayed a woman who works at a college textbook buyback stand, then took two books and some money from her. Police in Indiana, Pa. say they're still looking for the suspect ...
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