Thursday, August 13, 2009

New option to rent textbooks instead of buying

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/education/14textbook.html?_r=1&ref=education

In the rapidly evolving college textbook market, one of the nation’s largest textbook publishers, Cengage Learning, announced on Thursday that it would start renting books to students this year, at 40 to 70 percent of the sale price. Would you choose to rent over buying the textbook? Why or why not?

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