Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Google Alert - rent textbook

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Textbook Rental Company Chegg Adds Daily Deals For Students
MocoNews
Hoping that students will come to rent A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics and stay for the discounted pizza, Chegg is launching Chegg Deals, ...
Rent-A-Text saves students over $1 million
Newton Daily News
DMACC began offering textbook rentals at the six DMACC campus bookstores in the fall of 2010 through a partnership with Follett Higher Education Group, ...



Google Alert - college textbooks

News10 new results for college textbooks
College Textbooks "Obscenely Overpriced" and Inaccurate
Scoop.co.nz
College history students today are required to buy "obscenely overpriced" textbooks that are "a vapid stew of half-truths and hilarious factual errors dumbed down to whatever reading level is desired," the dean of a new history college says. ...
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College Students Provide an Economics Lesson in Textbook Purchases: Renting Pays
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
According to eCampus.com, one of the pioneers of online textbook retailing, nearly one in five of all college textbook purchases online today is a rental. Two years ago, online textbook rentals accounted for just 1 percent of all sales. ...
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Chegg and College Battle of the Bands Present the Textbooks & Tickets Tour ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- After a massively successful tour last year, Chegg today announced it will once again present the Textbooks & Tickets Tour and provide free tickets to college students across the country, ...
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Students scrimp on costly books
Lancaster Newspapers
A new survey released by the US Public Interest Research Group found that the price of textbooks has risen 22 percent over the past four years. In fact, the US Government Accountability Office reports, college textbook prices have increased at twice ...
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E-books, a long way to go
The Daily Titan
The popular belief is that publishers supply students with cheaper e-book versions of the textbooks their professors request. However, e-books have a long way to go before they replace traditional college textbooks as a tool for student learning. ...
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Find more than you could have bargained for at college store
Etownian
Every year at Elizabethtown College, students rush in and out of the college store to get their textbooks for classes. It works simply; the books are always organized neatly on the shelves by subject and professor. But it's hard to appreciate the ease ...
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7 Hysterical Boston-Area College Spoof Twitter Accounts
Boston Globe (blog)
Some Boston-area college kids are devoting their remaining free hours between drinking coffee, getting drunk, and skimming textbooks to a cause that benefits everyone: spoof Twitter accounts. In 140 characters or less, they're making fun of their ...
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Shop around for textbooks
ASU Herald
"Thank God for Wal-Mart," I think some days because they really do have everything you might possibly need as a college student. Sadly, however, Wal-Mart lacks in one area for me—textbooks. Finding cheap textbooks can mean a fight to the death for a ...
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Bright Idea: New Online Service is Like Netflix for Textbooks
BusinessNewsDaily
By Ned Smith, BusinessNewsDaily Senior Writer After students or, more likely, their parents, have settled the tab for college tuition and room and board, one of the biggest expenses is buying textbooks. The average student spends approximately $1100 a ...
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Medical school uses iPads for learning
Central Florida Future
The UCF College of Medicine has lightened the load on the shoulders of medical students by replacing textbooks with iPads in an effort to provide more innovative learning methods. The college has teamed up with Inkling, a publishing platform working to ...
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