"Textbook rental" refers to the practice of borrowing textbooks for a specific period of time instead of purchasing them. Instead of buying a textbook at its full cost, students can rent it for a certain duration and return it when they no longer need it. This helps save money, as renting textbooks is generally cheaper than buying them.
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Can academic presses harness the recent popularity
of textbook rentals to steer customers toward e-books?
«Education» expenses include ordinary costs assessed to all students, such
as textbook rental, laboratory fees, and lunches, which should be paid by the custodial parent.
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.
However, as the digital material and
textbook rental market continues to grow, students now have more choices than ever before for how to access their course materials.
Digital textbook rental company Chegg announced some time ago that they were taking the company public and inviting investors to come on board.
College entered into the spring back - to - school rush and saw continued growth in its higher margin
textbook rental business.
Amazon on Monday launched Kindle
textbook rentals for the 2011 school year in a move that aims to dent college bookstores as well as hefty book prices.
Amazon launched
Kindle textbook rentals for the 2011 school year in a move that aims to dent college bookstores as well as hefty book prices.
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.»
Sales at campus bookstores declined 3 % from $ 540 million to $ 525 million, «due to a shift from selling new and used textbooks to lower
priced textbook rentals,» according to the earnings release.
Comparable sales decreased 2.7 % for the full year on a higher mix of lower priced
used textbook rentals and lower textbook volume.
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.
Amazon ushered in a
new textbook rental system today offering students huge savings by renting books.
Google may trumpet a copious amount of storage via Google Drive and digital
textbook rental solutions but students need productivity.
Chegg is the
innovative textbook rental company that has saved more than $ 200 million dollars for millions of college students at practically every campus in the U.S..
In a timely partnership for the school year, international publisher McGraw - Hill and ebook - and - print bundler iFlipd pilot a $ 15 - per -
week textbook rental.
It said it sees «substantial potential value» in the
B&N textbook rental arm and digitization of its college bookstore.
If you want to know more about eCampus and
other textbook rental services, check out our article on Comparing the Best College Textbook Rental Companies.
I am hoping to use a couple of NWEI discussion books in an Environmental Sustainability course this spring —
if textbook rental at my university will allow it despite having no ISBN number.
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.
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.
Chegg, a Santa Clara, Calif. — based startup that made its name
in textbook rentals, has made its first piece of software that it says will aid the transition to digital learning for students by offering e-textbooks that act an awful lot like physical textbooks.