The rising price of textbooks has caused some students to look for books through alternative sources, but these companies aren’t pulling profits from at least one of Ohio State’s traditional ...

Kelly Carmichael is a Sacramento State University senior studying to be an elementary school teacher. A book for one of her child development courses cost more than $170. But when a professor ...

Textbooks may become less of a financial burden for students with the introduction of a new textbook initiative of the Arizona Board of Regents. “[We] are very impressed with how seriously the ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook At about 25 colleges nationwide, rental programs allow students to obtain their books each ...

Giving you yet another reason (Amazon.com hopes) to buy its Kindle e-reader, the company Monday announced its Kindle Textbook rental program for students. "Students tell us that they enjoy the low ...

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 ...

As an English education major at Minnesota State University, Jessica Kramar’s textbooks each semester retail at about $300. For a poor college student, that’s a whole lot of ramen and dollar items at ...

PORT ANGELES — The newest option for Peninsula College students who need books for classes is to rent a text. Students now can buy books new or used or get a good deal on a “plundered” book. And they ...

Pencils, caffeine and textbooks are only a fraction of the expense of starting another college semester, but students at the University of Colorado may be seeing some early savings this semester. The ...