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BookRenter Rents You Textbooks on the Cheap [Textbooks]

BookRenter is a solution to the problem of buying books at inflated prices and selling them back for pennies on the dollar to your college books store. Rent your books for a fraction of the retail price.

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BookRenter lets you rent a book for as long as 125 days—the average semester length—or as little as 30. A semester rental is usually about 50% or less of the retail price with the price falling as the length of rental decreases. They give you an option to purchase the book brand new but that's where the deal finding at BookRenter ends—their business model is definitely geared towards you renting and not buying, the purchase price is full retail.

For more places to save on textbooks check out our guide to the best places to save on textbooks. Have a tip for saving on school expenses? Let’s hear about it in the comments.






Barnes & Noble Saves Students Money with New Textbook Rental Service [Saving Money]

Tuition may be steep, but things only get worse when you factor in the cost of textbooks. When we highlighted the best places to save money on textbooks, we included Chegg, an online textbook rental service. Now the popular bookstore Barnes & Noble has joined in the fray with a rental program integrated with 25 colleges in the U.S.—allowing students to rent textbooks from participating college bookstores, online, or from B&N stores on campus. You can see if your college is participating here. [Barnes & Noble College via TechCrunch]






CourseSmart Puts Textbooks on Your iPhone [Downloads]

iPhone/iPod touch: You may be doing your best to get your textbooks for free, but for those times you’re thinking about buying, consider CourseSmart, a new iPhone application that puts textbooks in your pocket.

CourseSmart the-mobile-app is the baby of CourseSmart the-web-site, which sells digital versions of over 7,000 textbooks from most of the leading textbook publishers. When you buy a book from CourseSmart, you also get access to it (for free) on the CourseSmart iPhone app.

And while your iPhone screen certainly isn’t the best place to pore over hundreds of pages of your bio textbook, it’s probably not a bad tool for a little last-minute cramming or studying on-the-go. CourseSmart is freeware, iPhone and iPod touch only.

CourseSmart [iTunes App Store via PC World]





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