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Saving Money with Textbook Rentals: Easy as it Sounds?
Spending several hundred dollars each semester on textbooks has become the norm. Some college students try to cut costs by purchasing used copies of their required textbooks; online textbook rental companies are also gaining popularity.
According to the National Association of College Stores (NACS), approximately half of all major college and university bookstores across the country also started their own textbook rental programs this fall.
New Textbook Rental Programs on Campus Facing Problems
These campus textbook rental programs were eagerly anticipated by students in hopes of drastically cutting their textbook costs, but now that the fall semester is more than halfway over students are still complaining about high prices. Associated Press writer Christian Salazar discussed these problems in an article published November 6, 2010.
NACS says about 1,500 of its 3,000 members are running textbook rental programs this fall, and it
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Melissa Rhone earned her Bachelor of Music in Education from the University of Tampa. She resides in the Tampa Bay area and enjoys writing about college, pop culture, and epilepsy awareness.