Renting college textbooks is often cheaper than buying, but consider if you’ll need the book in the future You don’t have to buy or rent from your college bookstore — you may save money by going ...

The rising price of textbooks has caused some students to look for books through alternative sources, but these companies aren’t pulling profits from at least one of Ohio State’s traditional ...

To ease the burden of the increasing cost of textbooks on students, the De Anza College bookstore is testing a textbook rental program. Students can borrow select books for one academic quarter at a ...

Amazon has introduced e-book textbook rentals just in time for the fall semester, allowing students to save up to 80 percent on some titles. E-textbook rentals can be viewed not just on Amazon’s ...

College and university bookstores are now offering textbook rentals, and students preparing for their return to class later this month are really buying into it, officials say. Textbooks typically ...

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Amazon has rented textbooks for Kindle users for a while, and now it looks like the company’s moving toward books that aren’t strictly textbooks. Amazon has rented textbooks for Kindle users for a ...

Kelly Carmichael is a Sacramento State University senior studying to be an elementary school teacher. A book for one of her child development courses cost more than $170. But when a professor ...