Sentences with phrase «of textbook rentals»

Can academic presses harness the recent popularity of textbook rentals to steer customers toward e-books?

Given the significant expansion of the textbook rental business over the past few years, College comparable store sales now reflect the revenue generated from textbook rentals and are no longer adjusted to reflect the equivalent textbook retail selling price.

Not exact matches

The tactic gained a lot of attention for the textbook rental company.

«Every CEO needs time to have their full vision articulated and understood,» said Dan Rosensweig, a former Yahoo chief operating officer, who now serves as CEO of online textbook rental company Chegg.com.

One of those moving parts is a quirk in Indiana law which allows districts to charge parents a «rental fee» for textbooks.

Recognizing that the cost of textbooks was out of control almost two decades ago, we created CampusBooks.com, a price - comparison website where students can see all of their options for used and new print books, rentals, ebooks, and even local library inventory.

You can also rent books instead of buying them from services like Amazon's Kindle textbook rental.

Also, growing significantly faster than ebook sales, are the rentals of used textbooks which are hitting both rentals of new titles and new print sales.

All of this information is stored in the Amazon cloud so you can access all of this even when the textbook rental expires!

He was also the co-founder of Chegg, the textbook rental business that is reportedly aiming for an IPO soon.

SEATTLE, July 18, 2011 --(NASDAQ: AMZN)-- Today, Amazon.com announced the launch of Kindle Textbook Rental — now students can save up to 80 % off textbook list prices by renting from the Kindle Store.

If the College bookstore wants to expand their textbook rental system, they are only accountable to themselves and not the same executive team in charge of everything else.

Of course, Hill highlighted the fact that other models that consumers and publishers are familiar with are also technically subscriptions, such as textbook rentals in higher education.

Google may trumpet a copious amount of storage via Google Drive and digital textbook rental solutions but students need productivity.

The feature quickly moved down the left hand menu to its current place in the ghost town of the «More to Explore» section, along with textbook rentals and the Kindle business section.

They are dropping the prices of its e-book rentals and piloting a new program for print textbook rentals.

The company, which was the first major retailer to offer a multi-channel textbook rental program, announced it has expanded that highly successful program to nearly all of its Barnes & Noble College campus bookstores this semester, offering significant savings of more than 50 percent over a new printed book for millions of higher education students and their families.

Digital, Rental and Used Textbooks Provide Savings of 25 to 75 New York, New York — August 15, 2011 — As financially strapped higher education students head back to campus for the new school year, many will find dramatic savings and great convenience at their Barnes & Noble College campus bookstores.

Through its popular textbook rental program, Barnes & Noble College offers students the convenience of renting their books either in the campus bookstore or from the bookstore's Web site, reducing the need to pay shipping costs or wait for their books to arrive in the mail.

Follett Corporation, a contract operator of campus bookstores, Nebraska Book Company, a contract operator of on - campus and off - campus bookstores, Amazon.com, and Chegg.com, an online textbook rental company, compete directly with B&N College.

So why has the Book Industry Study Group, (BISG), found that only 11 % of higher education students in the U.S. have utilized digital textbook rental services?

A recent report stated that only 11 % of higher education students in the U.S. have utilized digital textbook rental services.

With the new rental program, students are expected to save as much as 70 %, compared to the price of purchasing a new textbook.»

College comparable store sales reflect the retail selling price of a new or used textbook when rented, rather than solely the rental fee received and amortized over the rental period.

As textbooks lend themselves so well to the Print Replica format, many Print Replica books are available for rent and the price is determined by the length of time needed for the rental period, between thirty days and one year.

GoodeReader reported on digital textbook publisher CourseSmart's involvement in a multi-year study by STEPP (STudent Erent Pilot Project) on how the rental of digital textbooks are affecting learning outcomes at the higher education level, with a special focus on providing easier and more cost effective accessibility... [Read more...]

Comparable College store sales reflect the retail selling price of a new or used textbook when rented, rather than solely the rental fee received and amortized over the rental period.

College's product margins improved during the quarter on a higher mix of higher margin textbook rentals, while expenses increased due to new store growth and continued investments in digital education.

It said it sees «substantial potential value» in the B&N textbook rental arm and digitization of its college bookstore.

«Today, Amazon.com announced the launch of Kindle Textbook Rental — now students can save up to 80 % off textbook list prices by renting from the Kindle Store,» the company said -LSB-...]

One nice aspect of tablets though is the ability to use them for textbooks thanks to applications like Amazon's Kindle and textbook rentals which may make them a bit more beneficial.

Only July 18th, Amazon began texbook rentals of «tens of thousands of textbooks.»

Amazon on Monday announced Kindle Textbook Rental, which will enable students to save up to 80 % off the retail prices of textbooks, by renting them as ebooks from the Kindle Store, instead of purchasing them outright.

«Today, Amazon.com announced the launch of Kindle Textbook Rental — now students can save up to 80 % off textbook list prices by renting from the Kindle Store,» the company said in a press release.

Amazon's Vice President at Kindle Dave Limp, says that Amazon will also be giving students a bonus with their Kindle text book rentals — «Normally, when you sell your print textbook at the end of the semester you lose all the margin notes and highlights you made as you were studying.

In August 2010, concurrently with introducing a web - based textbook rental service, Barnes and Noble - «one of the largest textbook retailers in the US» [49]- introduced the NOOK Study app «for the PC or Mac that lets users buy or rent e-book versions of their textbooks for use on the computer.

SEATTLE, Jul 18, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN)-- Today, Amazon.com announced the launch of Kindle Textbook Rental — now students can save up to 80 % off textbook list prices by renting from the Kindle Store.

As College developed its textbook rental business, comparable store sales reflected the retail selling price of a new or used textbook when rented, rather than solely the rental fees received to provide a more representative comparable store sales figure.

As noted above, the company says deferred income from textbook rentals also affected its earnings per share, «the majority of which will be realized in the fourth quarter.»

For example, a good textbook rental site should give you the option of replacing your book if it got delivered to you in a poor condition or if it's missing some pages.

This textbook rental service prides itself in being «the student's marketplace (their tagline) as well as one of the few book rental sites that lets you track or return your order in a convenient manner via a box that you fill in on the homepage.

When it comes to rental durations, you have the option of choosing semester, quarter or short term, making it more convenient for those who would like some kind of flexibility on the amount of time they'd like to rent their textbook for.

What I like about Valore Books is that it lets you compare the prices of books from multiple textbook rental providers so you get the best possible price.

We compare all of the major textbook rental sites so that you can know the best one for you.

You may want to choose textbook rental sites which provide you with some kind of guarantee or insurance.

In this post, we'll review a few of the most popular textbook rental websites, as well as look at the pros and cons of renting textbooks.

In fact, it is the wholesale move by college stores» across the country to offer print textbook rentals (from 300 stores in 2009 to nearly all of our 3,000 members currently) that has been the primary reason that the cost of course materials declined from four years ago.

Follett Higher Education Group offers members an average savings of 50 percent or more on the cost of textbooks with their text rental program.

You can rent textbooks from Barnes and Noble for various lengths of time and can extend your rental when needed.

You also have the option to rent textbooks and view rental prices against the price of purchase.