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California Legislation for Open Source Textbooks

2012-04-25T09:56:00.004-07:00

Legislation is in the California Senate committee aiming to create a digital library for California public colleges. It would create an online resource housing open source educational resources. Open source materials are published under open licenses and can therefore be distributed online at minimal cost.

These resources would be based on the findings of a California Open Education Resources Council, a council that would determine the 50 most widely taken lower division courses and then approve the open source materials created for those classes. Though the bill did not state how the council would go about determining which classes to include, and though the focus of classes differs from university to university, the library is still a positive effort to provide low-cost materials to all California public institutions.

This legislation, if moved out of committee and passed, would allow educational materials to be more widely disseminated throughout the California public education system. More importantly it would ease the financial strain on students who pay hundreds of dollars every semester for college books. The council hopes to answer concerns about the quality of open source textbooks. In addition, switching to open source materials may be a hassle for some professors but this digital open source library will help relieve one of the biggest economic stresses students face.

Beyond simply deciding which courses to provide open source texts for, the council would create a system allowing publishers and faculty members to apply for funds to create these digital textbooks and other educational materials for the library to disseminate. By having faculty members from the universities work directly in the formulation of these textbooks, the high quality of materials used in university classes would be better maintained. Professors should still be compensated for their work, but with the new library system, students will not have to pay the premium price that they currently do.

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Steve Jobs Biography Hints At What's To Come From Apple: Textbooks, TVs And More
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Website one way to tackle growing cost of textbooks
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'Textbook Rebellion' sweeps LCC
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Palestinian schools reject censored textbooks
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Book rental outfit Chegg adds Daily Deals feature
Geek.com
Its textbook rental service – launched in 2007 – has proven a hit with college students across the USA. The company is quick to tout the ecological benefits of renting textbooks over purchasing new ones each year, though some in the publishing industry ...
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Police: Expensive books stolen, sold back to Ivy Tech
nwitimes.com
A school employee taking inventory told police Friday that 21 expensive college textbooks were unaccounted for. An investigation of records at the book store revealed that the exact same titles had been sold back to the school by a student, ...
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Rebelling against the textbook
KTVL
SOU students were a part of a nationwide movement to make textbooks more affordable. It's called the Textbook Rebellion and the movement has traveled to around 40 college campuses in 13 states. SOU students dressed up in costumes as books to let others ...
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2011-10-04T06:54:00.001-07:00

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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

2011-10-04T06:33:00.001-07:00

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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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2011-09-27T06:54:00.001-07:00

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Pirate Service Makes Textbook Rentals Last Forever
TorrentFreak
"To revolutionize the digital e-textbook industry and change it permanently." Now the site is stepping up its assault against "textbook monopolists" by offering a brand new service to not only reduce the costs of digital textbook rentals, ...
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2011-09-27T06:33:00.001-07:00

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Get Your College Textbooks Cheap
U.S. News & World Report
But one mode of information exchange on campus has remained a constant: the expensive textbook. The average full-time student spent nearly $700 on course materials in the 2009-2010 academic year, calculates the National Association of College Stores. ...
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Petitioners seek drop in university textbook prices
abc7.com
"Over time if we keep beating the drum and implementing whatever solutions we have it is eventually going to force prices down," said Nicole Allen, CALPIRG textbook advocate. Petitioners want cheaper college textbooks.
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Clark Howard: Try these options to get textbooks for less
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
I got a rude introduction to the high-price world of college textbooks when my eldest daughter was a freshman several years ago. At the time, I had to pay $135 for one book for one class! Unfortunately, the cost of college textbooks is up 22 percent ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)

Poor college kid? 'Library Pirate' wants to help you
Afterdawn.com
Library Pirate wants to help poor college kids with the outrageous prices of university textbooks. The site's goal is: "Our mission is simple and specific. To revolutionize the digital e-textbook industry and change it permanently. ...
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Problematic history textbooks may return to Virginia
The Virginian-Pilot
The college history professor forwarded his comments to the Virginia Board of Education, which will decide today whether to place those books back on its approved textbook list. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia Wright is recommending ...
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The Virginian-Pilot

Student group pushes open source textbooks at UC Irvine
OCRegister
The activist group began its current tour of college campuses Aug. 31, arriving at the UC system just as classes began this week. The aim of the tour is to collect 10000 signatures in favor of open-source textbooks – books that are licensed and free ...
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Internet "pirates" help with textbook sticker shock
TG Daily
Sometimes the supplemental website materials that are assigned by instructors and paired with textbooks cost $30-50 - without even giving you access to the book itself. Most cash strapped college students would agree that something needs to change, ...
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Library Pirates Unlock Rented Digital Textbooks, Takes Aim at Publishers
Geekosystem
by Max Eddy | 1:45 pm, September 26th, 2011 As eBooks and eBook readers become more and more commonplace, there has been growing anticipation that digital textbooks will be the next big thing on college campuses. With some students hoping to beat the ...
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CourseSmart(R) Study Reveals Telling Link Between Communication and Study ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Financial fears could also deter conventional study habits, paving the way for increased usage of digital course materials: 63 percent of college students think eTextbooks are less expensive than traditional textbooks. "As financial concerns affect ...
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Fairfax County schools switch to digital textbooks
Washington Post
Other students said having the netbooks and online text in class is preparing them for college classes, where laptops are more heavily used for note taking. "In high school, it's a bit harder to be connected," senior Brenna Hanes, 17, said. ...
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2011-09-20T06:54:00.001-07:00

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An Interview with BookRenter Co-Founder Chris Williams
ZippyCart
As a textbook-rental company, I feel the need to ask you about learning: what's your learning process been like, both in your professional life as a whole, ...

Some things you can't learn from a textbook
MetroNews Canada
... of the six free courses she has planned, some that involve acting out parts of plays from Rent to Plato's Republic, and all with free food thrown in. ...

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2011-09-20T06:33:00.001-07:00

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Why are textbooks so expensive?
Mother Nature Network
Indeed, if you've shopped for college textbooks, chances are you've felt a similar sticker shock. The price of college textbooks can be exorbitant, reaching as high as $1740 for a philosophy book and $1510 for a four-volume set on international media ...
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Mother Nature Network

Cengage Learning and Verba Partner to Simplify Textbook Price Comparisons
PR Newswire (press release)
... global provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions, and Verba announced they are working together to help students surface a range of online pricing options for textbooks efficiently through participating college stores. ...
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Chegg Expands into $7 Billion College Recruiting Market; Increases Student ...
PR Newswire (press release)
"With our acquisition of Zinch, we're extending our mission to high school students through the $7 billion college recruiting market, while continuing to break down the barriers of a college education, from the high cost of tuition and textbooks to ...
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Petitions circle campus to lower textbook costs
UW Badger Herald
The aim of the tour is to collect 10000 signatures in favor of Open Textbooks, a program allowing free digital access to participating college textbooks and print options of textbooks at low costs. Two mascots standing tall at around 5-feet have grown ...
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Braille textbooks for Bangalore varsity students
The Hindu
... Braille textbooks and audio cassettes for undergraduate courses. The Vice-Chancellor will hand over the study material at a function on September 24 at 11.30 am at the Seminar Hall, Jnana Jyothi Convention Centre, Central College campus, here. ...
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Ten Things College Students Waste Money On
Forbes
Students who average 4 classes per semester and only have two books per class could save $5760 over four years on textbooks. Tuition – For the 2010-11 school year, the average cost of tuition and fees for a public college was just over $7600, ...
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Fire rescue complex offers college students real-life training
Star Community Newspapers
By Chris Beattie, cbeattie@acnpapers.com Some Collin College students spend their days in class reading hefty textbooks and memorizing the bold words. Others wield chainsaws and run into rooms engulfed in flames. Those would be students in the school's ...
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Hidden costs of college surprise students
The Pendulum
There are the obvious costs of tuition, room and board and textbooks, but what other costs go into paying for college? Elon has accounted in some ways for the extra costs of living. Patrick Murphy, director of Financial Planning, said the estimate for ...
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The Declining Value Of A College Degree
San Francisco Chronicle
These dollar amounts do not include textbooks, room and board, and other costs related to attending college. If a student, or his or her family, can afford to pay these costs outright, the monetary value of his or her degree will be more than a student ...
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A $10000 college education?
Stockton Record
"I'm challenging our institutions of higher education to develop bachelor's degrees that cost no more than $10000, including textbooks," Perry said during his State of the State remarks earlier this year. And just how does he propose that schools offer ...
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2011-09-13T06:54:00.001-07:00

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Textbook rentals on the rise
The Independent Florida Alligator
Pre-med student Marlon Rodriguez had to take this into consideration when purchasing his genetics textbook. Rather than paying $184 to purchase the textbook he needed this semester, Rodriguez opted to rent it for $138. Renting textbooks has become ...
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Amazon Launches On Demand Textbook Rental for Kindle
T.H.E. Journal
Online retailer Amazon.com now allows students to rent textbooks on its popular Kindle tablet on demand, which, the company says, could result in discounts of up to 80 percent. Students can customize the length of their rental period, purchasing any ...
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Students stuck with custom textbooks
SHSU Houstonian Online
These tailored books can typically only be bought through the campus bookstore, unless specially ordered by local textbook stores. Students cannot rent them through commonly used online textbook rental companies, such as Chegg.com, or local textbook ...
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Next up for Amazon, an e-book rental library for readers?
TechFlash
Next up for Amazon, an e-book rental library for readers? Amazon.com already has a special textbook rental service for college students. And now Amazon is said to be readying a Netflix-like service to allow readers to rent electronic novels, ...
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Lightening the textbook burden
Minnesota Daily
The University of Minnesota's bookstore offers used textbooks and the option to rent some, but they need to do more. Many books don't have used copies available despite advertising used prices. The University bookstore should also offer more textbooks ...
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Students save with textbook rental plan
Queen's Journal
The cost of shipping a book to the Campus Bookstore would in some cases double the rental price. The cost is $12 plus $4 per extra title to order them. On top of these costs is the actual textbook rental price which varies by length of time. ...
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Queen's Journal

School Book Savings
Patch.com
Textbooks.com advertises the best prices on textbooks-guaranteed-along with free shipping for orders over $25.00. Their site also features textbook rentals, eBook downloads and book buybacks! If you want to rent your textbook, Textbook Rentals will ...
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Textbooks: knowing your options and cutting costs
The Cord
In addition to sourcing books online and buying used books, students are increasingly turning to other alternatives, such as renting textbooks to save themselves a few dollars. BookAccess.ca, founded in 2010, offers a wide range of textbooks for ...
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The Cord

Getting closer towards the Digital Backpack
Big Think
A couple of weeks ago Chegg, the leading textbook rental company decided to reshape its business and evolve into a one-stop-shop for students. Chegg users can now not only rent textbooks via the newly designed platform but also connect with other ...
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2011-09-13T06:33:00.000-07:00

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Cost-conscious UMD students join nationwide 'Textbook Rebellion'
South Coast Today
Barry was among the students to sign a petition Tuesday favoring affordable textbooks. The petition drive at UMass Dartmouth was organized by "Textbook Rebellion," a national coalition for lower college textbook prices. The event was one of 40 rallies ...
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Saylor Foundation Launches Multi-Million Dollar Open Textbook Challenge
PR Newswire (press release)
Eligible textbooks will reinforce and expand upon subject areas correlating to the 200+ free online college-level courses available at Saylor.org, which are drawn from high-enrollment majors at traditional US colleges. The texts will also be openly ...
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Flat World Knowledge Signs eText Agreement With Indiana University to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
IRVINGTON, NY, Sep 09, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Flat World Knowledge, the largest publisher of expert-authored and peer-reviewed open college textbooks, announced today that it has signed a university-wide licensing agreement with Indiana ...
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How to Save on College Textbooks and Journal Articles
Savings.com (blog)
Monbiot primarily cites the astronomical costs of journal articles, but the average college student has more experience with expensive college textbooks. These books can sometimes cost hundreds of dollars, with new editions that come out yearly ...
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Students shop around for college textbooks
WCAX
This may be Owen Howard's junior year, but this is the first time he's actually looking at price tags of textbooks. "This is the first year I had to buy books myself and they're pretty expensive. The math books are expensive," Howard said. ...
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Saylor Foundation Launches Multi-Million Dollar Open Textbook Challenge
Sacramento Bee
7, 2011 -- Open Education Non-Profit Offers $20000 to Each College Textbook Author Willing to License Texts Openly Under Creative Commons Licensing and Allow Free Use for Students and Educators WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2011 The Saylor Foundation ...
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Saylor Foundation Kicks Off Open Textbook Challenge
Campus Technology
Eligible textbooks will expand on the more-than 200 free online college-level courses available at Saylor.org. (A list of applicable subjects is available online.) The texts will be available to anyone in the world and freely distributed via various ...
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Don't buy 'by the book'
Eastern Echo
According to a 2004 report from the State Public Interest Research Groups, the average student will spend $900 per year on college textbooks. This does not include students who attend spring and summer semesters. This is roughly one-fifth of the cost ...
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3 Canadian Colleges Move to iPad Textbooks
Campus Technology
Pearson's free eText for iPad app version 1.1, currently available in the Apple iTunes Store, allows students to access digital versions of its college textbooks with a Pearson username and password. The app's "bookshelf" displays all the titles ...
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9/11 included in books but not lesson plan
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
By Mark Guydish mguydish@timesleader.com University of Scranton Professor Jean Harris holds her textbook, 'American Democracy Now,' in her office in Scranton. If being part of college textbooks is the criteria, then yes, the attacks 10 years ago became ...
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Google Alert - college textbooks

2011-09-06T23:01:00.000-07:00

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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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2011-09-06T23:00:00.000-07:00

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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" ...

Google Alert - rent textbook

2011-08-23T06:54:00.001-07:00

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Solution to textbook inflation: Just rent 'em
msnbc.com
Used books are the traditional money-saving option, but many required textbooks are not available on the used market. In some cases, e-books are the answer. But paper books are still the format of choice. So many savvy students now rent their textbooks ...
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Textbook Rental Giant Chegg Goes Digital; Now Offers HTML5 Books
TechCrunch
Learn More As college students around the country start heading back to the dorms and purchasing their books for the semester, textbook rental giant Chegg is making major waves in the space with a number of new announcements. ...
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New rental program decreases textbook costs
The State Press
Director of Bookstores Val Ross, a parent of college students, knows too well that students and their families struggle to pay for textbooks and said ASU's new option to rent textbooks could offer financial relief. "Textbooks are expensive, of course, ...
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Alibris Marketplace Runs Contest to Encourage Textbook Rentals
Auctionbytes
By Ina Steiner Online booksellers now have a way to rent their textbook inventory as they find themselves increasingly competing with textbook rental programs from such sites as Chegg, BookRenter and CampusBookRentals. (Even Amazon launched a textbook ...
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Renting Textbook Advice from the Cheap Chick
FOX 9 News
With one quick Google search, I found NINE different sites offering textbook rentals. That's not including Barnes and Noble.com, who also offer a textbook rental program. 4. Check to see how long the rental is good for, and whether or not they offer a ...
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New lower-price Kindle with ads arrives
USA Today (blog)
Another feature that may attract the back-to-school crowd is the device's Kindle Textbook Rental service, which lets customers rent books for up to 360 days at up to 80% off the textbook list price. "With Kindle 3G, you never have to find or pay for a ...
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Textbook purchasing options plentiful
Oklahoma Daily
A complication that arises when renting textbooks is that some textbooks are used for more than one class level. For instance, Elementary Algebra and Intermediate Algebra classes use the same text; therefore, you would need to rent the text for more ...
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Oklahoma Daily

College Doesn't Have to Cost a Fortune: Neebo Takes Sting out of Back-to ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Neebo is taking the risk out of textbook rentals and helping students save up to 55% on their textbooks at all Neebo-powered bookstores and online at Neebo.com with their Neebo No Risk Rental Program. Neebo also announced a Facebook sweepstakes for ...
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2011-08-23T06:33:00.001-07:00

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Life Inc.: Finding cheap textbooks on the web
msnbc.com
Here are Cheapism's top picks for college textbooks sites. Textbook rental site Chegg.com offers 2.4 million titles and gives students the option to send books back for free or buy them at the end of the term. Students can also buy and sell books. ...
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College students find alternatives to pricey textbooks
News10.net
However, there are plenty of ways college students can save money, by avoiding purchasing new textbooks. For example, a smart phone application called 'Coresmart', which is affiliated with five of the largest college textbook publishers in the country, ...
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Study up on these 5 ways to save on college textbooks
Reuters Blogs (blog)
The average college student spends $1137 a year for textbooks and other course materials, up from $988 three years ago according to collegeboard.org. There are some cases where students just can't avoid buying new books, especially if the new edition ...
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Why Everything You Believe about Buying College Textbooks is Wrong
PR Newswire (press release)
To make the return to class easier on students and their wallets, the National Association of College Stores (NACS) is busting four common misperceptions about textbooks: MYTH #1: Buying textbooks from an online retailer is always more convenient. ...
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The Bucks Guide to Finding Cheap Textbooks: 3rd Edition
New York Times (blog)
By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD Courtesy of Textbook RebellionThe "Textbook Rebel" battles it out with "Mr. $200 Textbook" as part of a campaign to raise awareness about escalating book prices and cheaper alternatives. Exorbitant college textbook prices have ...
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New York Times (blog)

GetchaBooks Letsya Getcha College Textbooks Widdout Da Hassle
TechCrunch
GetchaBooks is different from other services like Chegg and Textbooks.com in that the search system is centered around courses. Rather than typing in "Advanced Dance Movement For Accountancy Students" into a search box, you select your school, ...
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High textbook costs propel idea at K-State
Kansas City Star
"The cost of college textbooks is outrageous," Sterling said. "I know students who took on a second job just to afford their books." Buying books can easily run up into the hundreds of dollars every semester. Commonly students have complained about ...
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Use The Kno App, Other Tricks To Save On Textbooks
Investor's Business Daily
By PAUL KATZEFF, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 08/19/2011 05:48 PM ET One area of the economy already ravaged by inflation is college textbooks. Book prices skyrocketed 22% over the past four years, according to Student Public Interest Research ...
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TextbookLand Prepares Students for 2011 Fall Semester, By Helping Save Money ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
College textbooks are extremely costly and finding cheap ones can be a real pain. TextBookLand offers an extremely reliable price comparison service that let's you choose the cheapest route available when it comes to buying textbooks. ...
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Neebo Hires Seasoned Retail Industry Leader as New Area Vice President
PR Newswire (press release)
Beginning Monday, August 22, Clancy will assume leadership responsibility for half of the company's US retail store locations, totaling nearly 150 college textbook stores. She will be based in Castle Rock, CO. "Gwen Clancy has a superior track record ...
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