Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cost of college textbooks can be a significant expense. Even used books at the campus bookstore can be prohibitively expensive ...

NEW YORK (AP)-- Textbook rental programs at many of the nation's colleges -- touted as money-savers for students -- are limited by the number of available titles, publishers who release frequent new ...

Pearson is offering textbook rentals at up to 1,500 independent campus bookstores through a new deal with indiCo — the first partnership that allows on-campus bookstores to participate in the textbook ...

Recently, renting textbooks has become a cheaper way for students strapped for cash to obtain the books for courses. Great ­— we have an avenue around the overpriced and generally unnecessary textbook ...

With textbook prices continuing to put a strain on student’s wallets, UofA Bookstores are trying to provide some relief by offering a textbook rental program. Cindy Hawk, associate director of UofA ...

“Don’t do it,” the advertisement warns. It’s talking about buying required books for classes, which, it tells me, I “only need for a few months.” Instead, the ad is trying to get me to rent those ...

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 ...

Only rental texts and e-book pricing declined over the long haul, by 9 percent and 44 percent, respectively, between August 2016 and January 2019. Over that same period, the use of rental books ...

In August 2019, the attentions of many Snopes readers evidently turned toward the upcoming academic year, and for some, the fall 2019 college semester. With that, we received multiple inquiries about ...

The cost of college textbooks can be a significant expense. Even used books at the campus bookstore can be prohibitively expensive, and the resale value on all textbooks can be low. Luckily, there are ...

New York - Textbook rental programs at many of the nation's colleges aren't yet the solution to save students from the high costs of their books. Bookstores are limited by the number of titles ...