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| Textbook rentals go online
North Shore News By Steve Dotto, Special to North Shore News August 10, 2011 Amazon is offering a textbook rental program in Kindle format, offering students the chance to save money by only paying for what they need. THE back-and bankbreaking prospect of a semester's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| College Students Save By Renting Textbooks, Going Digital
KSAT San Antonio Amazon recently joined the electronic textbook rental business where consumers can find their textbooks through their Kindle or Kindle app. Barnes and Noble, Chubb and others also have e-textbooks available. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Alibris Rolls Out Online Textbook Rental Marketplace
TMC Net Aug 16, 2011 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Alibris, a division of Monsoon Commerce and an online marketplace for new and used books, textbooks, music, movies, and video games, introduces an online textbook rental marketplace, featuring textbooks for ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| MBS to offer rental textbooks
Columbia Daily Tribune By Jacob Barker Students looking to save cash on textbooks will now be able to rent books from MBS Direct's online bookstores after the company announced a partnership Friday with San Mateo, Calif.,-based BookRenter. MBS Direct, a subsidiary of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Three Tech-Smart Ways to Save on Books for College
Experts Exchange (blog) Not to be outdone, Barnes and Noble also announced their own textbook rental program last August, offering the service at both online and at B&N-run campus stores. While textbook rental can save you money, like anything else you rent you need to be ... See all stories on this topic » |
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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| Barnes & Noble College Textbooks Options Will Save Students More Than $200 ...
MarketWatch (press release) The company also announced it would offer its highly acclaimed line of NOOK reading devices through its more than 630 Barnes & Noble College bookstores. Already an established source for lower-cost used textbooks, Barnes & Noble has made a major effort ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| New Bill Aims To Reduce College Textbook Prices
33 KDAF-TV College students across North Texas are getting ready to head back to campus and that means bookstores will be busy. But, this school year a new bill aimed at making textbooks more affordable will go into effect. The Dallas-based state representative ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| California Faculty Poll: Textbook Costs Can Be Reduced
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) The newly released executive summary shows high level of faculty awareness regarding student costs and a new found willingness to adopt open source digital textbooks over traditional textbooks. The high cost of traditional college textbooks is a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Free textbooks are just one money-saving option available to college students
NewsNet5.com The days of spending $500 for college textbooks are over. The options are endless to save money or even get your books for free. Traditional bookstores are closing as technology has readers choosing e-books over traditional books. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Amazon Student app makes trading in those college textbooks easy
Tuscaloosa News (subscription) (blog) by wayne.grayson We all know the pain of parting with roughly $500 each semester on "new editions" of college textbooks. We also know the hassle of going from bookstore to bookstore trying to find the best trade-in deal to get as much of that money ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The answer to the high cost of textbooks?
Edmonton Journal College textbook publishers are already offering electronic versions and, as iPad use becomes more widespread, certainly more will ultimately be available. College book publishers are getting their texts, and other course materials onto Ipad. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UH Book Rentals Picking Up
Hawaii News Now It's UH's remedy for the high cost of college textbooks. "On the average we've seen students paying between $400 to $500 for their text books. So if they're renting their books they could possibly be saving $200, $250 right off the get-go," said Tricia ... See all stories on this topic » |
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