Google Alert - college textbooks

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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 ... See all stories on this topic » 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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic » 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. ... See all stories on this topic »

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. ... See all stories on this topic » 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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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. ... See all stories on this topic » 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. ... See all stories on this topic »

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Google Alert - rent textbook

News 3 new results for rent textbook

Jensen: Make fewer physical textbooks a reality in 2012 Iowa State Daily Just imagine not having to do price comparison, finding places to rent a book or wait in lines to be later ripped off by the phenomenon of textbook pricing. ...

Patch Picks: Five Ways to Spend Less on Textbooks Patch.com Many textbooks are available for rent, which is a lot cheaper than buying the book and reselling it. At www.textbookrevolt.com, you can have a rented book ...

Jonathan Takiff: Go back to school with cool gadgets Sacramento Bee Have you bought a new textbook lately? Prices are staggering. But if the student only needs a book for a few weeks or chapters, Amazon offers a "rent it" ...

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