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Amazon Offering Physical Textbooks for Rent PC Magazine Amazon last summer unveiled its Kindle Textbook Rental service, which lets students rent textbooks on their Kindles or Kindle apps for up to a year. With that service, rental times start at 30 days and can go up to 360 days, depending on how long the ... See all stories on this topic »

Kno Starts Renting K-12 E-Textbooks Business Insider Here's why Kno CEO Osman Rashid think he can get parents to pay $9.99 a year to rent textbooks: backpacks, he told us. It's well-documented that schoolkids are suffering back pain from schlepping around all their textbooks. So Rashid's pitch: Rent a ... See all stories on this topic » Business Insider

Textbook renting more expensive, study says UNLV The Rebel Yell "Our mission has always been to stay on top of the latest trends in purchasing or renting textbooks, so that when customers come to our website they can trust our first recommendation," said Jeff Sherwood, founder and CEO of Bigwords.com. The company's ... See all stories on this topic »

The Netflix of Textbooks: Renting Tomes To Rake In Cash Forbes Digital Download (blog) A Utah-based company has carved itself a $40 million slice in the $10 billion college textbook industry by renting books to students on 6000 different campuses, both online and through 180 college bookstores. CampusBookRentals.com, one of last year's ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes Digital Download (blog)

Amazon now renting old-fashioned paper textbooks VentureBeat The company will allow a "minimal" amount of note-taking in the textbooks. If a student adds "excessive writing or highlighting" to a rented textbook and tries to ship it back, he or she will be charged the full purchase price of the book minus rental ... See all stories on this topic » VentureBeat

Rent or buy? Scottsboro Daily Sentinel Websites like allbookstores.com, bigwords.com and campusbooks.com offer cross price comparisons, allowing students to double check over the Internet the best price for a textbook. The website also showcases new, used, rental and digital text book options. See all stories on this topic »

Buying textbooks? Rent them from Amazon instead TechRadar UK Amazon's own Kindle textbook rental service also offers more flexible scheduling, with the option to rent a book for between 30 and 360 days. This is only the first school year Amazon has offered physical textbook rentals, so the service will likely ... See all stories on this topic » TechRadar UK

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