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Buying College Textbooks? SwoopThat Hunts Down Your Best Deals
4:30PM 8/31/2011
When it comes to buying textbooks, the options have been slim: Pay high prices at the campus bookstore, or search hither and yon to track down used books. Now, a new startup called SwoopThat is changing that with a robust comparison shopping tool that does for textbooks what sites like Kayak.com have done for air travel.
Macmillan, one of the largest textbook publishers in the world, is introducing a new software for instructors that will allow them to change the online versions of textbooks that their students use.
According to the New York Times, with DynamicBooks, "Professors will be able to reorganize or...
Yesterday was my first day of classes for the semester and with that came the syllabus for one class with a list of three books I needed. On Amazon, the three titles would have cost me a total of $103.52.
Instead, I'm getting them for free.
How'd I do it?
As soon as the class was dismissed, I...
Before going to college bookstore, consider renting textbooks
12:00PM 8/07/2009
From tuxedos to DVDs and cars, renting something for the short term makes a lot of sense.For college students spending the annual nationwide average of $700 to $1,100 for textbooks, Chegg.com and sites such as bookrenter.com offer textbook rentals by the quarter or semester, saving students...
Online textbooks: Saving money AND academic integrity!
4:00PM 9/16/2008
Reduce Reuse Recycle, Simplification, Technology, college finance, Personal Finance, Family Money, Saving Money
Between producing supplemental book sections, needlessly updating editions, and incessantly lobbying teachers to assign particular textbooks, scholarly publishers have perfected the art of separating students from their money. Of course, given the ever-increasing costs of tuition, it is pretty...
Why do textbooks cost so much? Could it be...a conspiracy?
4:30PM 2/28/2008
I used to be an English teacher at what Penthouse forum would call "a major mid-Atlantic university." One of the things about teaching English is that it's impossible to escape the high cost of books. Unlike PE teachers, art professors, or the guys who teach underwater basket weaving, English...
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