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Textbook Rentals On The Rise: Colleges Respond To High Costs For Students

First Posted: 07/26/10 01:45 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:10 PM ET

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The Boston Globe:

In an effort to curb escalating book prices amid sky-high college costs, bookstores at more than a dozen campuses across the state and hundreds more around the country will begin renting textbooks at about half the cost of buying them.

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In an effort to curb escalating book prices amid sky-high college costs, bookstores at more than a dozen campuses across the state and hundreds more around the country will begin renting textbooks at ...
In an effort to curb escalating book prices amid sky-high college costs, bookstores at more than a dozen campuses across the state and hundreds more around the country will begin renting textbooks at ...
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O K Ali
Wash your hands, seriously.
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04:52 AM on 07/27/2010
Ha! I leased my old texts every semester to new students and made my money back twice over. Then again, I was at a smaller college and able to keep track of the clients.
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Patrick Zaluski
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04:23 PM on 07/26/2010
I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND...how a bestseller can be about 20-30 and a paperback campus book is over $100....i mean is the info so prestigious that you have to spend $100 to buy the text? I understand in the hardcover dept, but the one time i had to buy a $112 geography paperback text no bigger than a common magazine and then was unable to resell it back, even though it was the latest and newest edition, made me never ever ever again buy texts i didnt think i would need....and low and behold i didnt need them, just did all my research via internet, library and by listening to teachers and using my brain.
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Silverwolf72
Are We There Yet?
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03:23 PM on 07/26/2010
It would help if every semester did not require a new edition
You can't even buy a used book anymore, they are out of date the same year.
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KalNJ
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02:48 PM on 07/26/2010
You know what would be an even better "Response To High Costs For Students"?
Lowering the tuition!!!
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leftpinkie
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02:21 PM on 07/26/2010
Publishers need to start tracking the complimentary books they send to professors as desk copies, since many sell them to used textbook retailers who in turn make a killing. These complimentary copies are of course part of the cost that publishers add to the price of their textbooks. Of course, college bookstores also jack-up their prices because they have the monopoly on the market.
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TrotskyMemo
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02:03 PM on 07/26/2010
Can't blame the students. My statistics book, brand new, would have costed 150 bucks! It seems like students have no upper hand when it comes to rising education costs, so I'm all for book rentals.

You know they even charge you for ONLINE STUDY MATERIALS, knowing full and well it's 100% profit since it's just an e-file.
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