Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Google Alert - rent textbook

News6 new results for rent textbook
STUDENTS: Here's Your Go-To Guide For Selling, Swapping, Buying And Renting ...
Business Insider
Amazon's Book Rental. Rent e-books as long as you need them (30 days is the minimum) and save up to 80% off the cover price. The best part about this service is that all your highlights and notes will still be available via their Cloud service even ...
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Students search book options
Daily O'Collegian
But the best way to get textbooks at a great price can be confusing. Emails are continuously popping up in inboxes about renting textbooks, buying them from the Student Union or buying them from another source; whether that be online such as Amazon.com ...
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MedicalTextbook Launches Medical Textbooks Price Comparison Service
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
MedicalTextbook.com Launches Brand New Service That Allows Medical Students To Compare Prices And Buy Or Rent Cheap Medical Textbooks Online. Future surgeons, doctors and nurses studying hospital education can now search, compare prices and buy cheap ...
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Madoff, Coach, Ambac, Nebraska Book, Real Mex: Bankruptcy
BusinessWeek
The extension gives Nebraska Book more time to negotiate lower rent. In yesterday's statement, Nebraska book said that the 170 on-campus stores "continue to perform well." The closing stores will operate until February to accommodate demand for the ...
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Kindle Fire Makes Apple Sweat E-Books
E-Commerce Times
CourseSmart also offers a mobile Web app for the Kindle Fire, iPad and Android tablets that provides access to more than 20000 e-textbooks. In July, Amazon.com launched its Kindle Textbook Rental program. This lets users rent tens of thousands of ...
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Make way for online bookstores
The Hindu
"For students like us, online bookstores and rentals are more convenient than the local bookstores," she adds. "Most online bookstores and rentals provide textbooks, reference and tutorials, which are the basic requirements for every student's learning ...
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Google Alert - college textbooks

News10 new results for college textbooks
How to Get Cheaper College Textbooks
Fox News
Like many students, you've probably spent a lot of money on college textbooks if you didn't do your homework. It's tempting to just swipe your card and just buy the books from the first vendor you come across. But the truth is that you could be losing ...
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College study: E-books falling flat
Daily Camera
E-books make up about 3 percent of the textbook market. The National Association of College Stores found through a survey that three-quarters of students still prefer hard-copy textbooks. College students spend an average of $900 a year on textbooks, ...
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Online textbooks could work for California
Los Angeles Times
(Los Angeles Times) It's time for college textbooks to catch up with the 21st century. Online, open-access textbooks that rely heavily on information in the public domain would not only cost students a fraction as much, but they also could be readily ...
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Daytona State College Rethinks Push For E-Textbooks
City Town Info Education Channel
A study conducted at Daytona State College in Florida has concluded that switching completely to digital textbooks might not be such a great idea after all. The school's past administration had considered a plan to switch the institution entirely to ...
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Army eyes e-textbooks for ROTC courses
Nextgov
By Bob Brewin 01/09/2012 The Army is considering an ambitious project to convert its college-level Reserve Officer Training Corps textbooks to e-books that can take advantage of the multimedia capabilities offered by a digital library. ...
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Local company launches online textbook site
The Herald Journal
(Eli Lucero/Herald Journal) Never before has information been so accessible, yet the cost of college textbooks remains prohibitively expensive. A Cache Valley company hopes to change that with a cutting-edge approach to publishing course materials for ...
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University of Michigan eyes e-books as a way to lower soaring textbook costs
AnnArbor.com
Public university students spend an average of $1168 on textbooks per year, according to 2011-2012 figures from the College Board Advocacy and Policy Center. Recently released results of a new study by Daytona State College show that while most ...
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Reminder about university textbook policy
The JHU Gazette
The intent is to lower the cost of textbooks by ensuring that people have appropriate options and pertinent and timely information when selecting and purchasing course materials. The policy came in response to the Maryland College Textbook Competition ...
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New Republic: Belt Tightening on College Costs
NPR
In particular, highly-profitable lower division courses in common subjects like Economics, Calculus, and Psychology have similar curricula at most colleges and rely on many of the same nationally-marketed textbooks. They are often taught by people with ...
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Rick Santorum Says College Isn't For Everyone
WBUR
I did not go to college and I am doing just fine, probably better than most who did go to college. The liberalism that is injected into textbooks and lessons is a major problem, it is dumbing down the whole country, thank god the Tea Party lit a fire ...
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