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How do you find cheap college textbooks? It's a question that millions of college students will be asking soon as they head back to school. The good news is that there are more opportunities than ever ...
School is back in session, and if you're headed back to campus and looking at your syllabus, you'll probably need a small fortune in textbooks. This week, we want to know which sites you think are the ...
According to a recent study, textbook prices have risen over 1,041 percent since 1977. Why? Because capitalism. Roughly 80 percent of all college textbooks printed are published by an oligopoly of ...
CSUN students are coping with the skyrocketing cost of textbooks, and many have found a wide variety of solutions to maximize their budget. If you haven’t already figured it out, here are some tips ...
“Pay Nothing? Easier Said Than Done” (The Chronicle, January 27) points out that producing free textbooks has some obstacles: money pressures, slow adoption by instructors, and quality concerns. To ...
Last year I wrote about a number of online tools and tips to help folks find good deals on college textbooks. It was an issue dear to my heart as my wife and I had two children in college. We still do ...
As the spring semester begins, so does the scramble to find cheap textbooks. Online retailers, local bookshops and even students with books left over from the past semester all compete to offer the ...
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 ...
After thousands of dollars are added up for every semester of college, one of the most stressful afterthoughts is the bane of every student’s existence: usually heavy, often useless and always ...
Your professors will probably be podcasting, and you may listen on your iPhone while reading a novel and checking Facebook. But one mode of information exchange on campus has remained a constant: the ...
As if attending college isn’t already expensive enough, the cost of textbooks has been rising drastically in recent years. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from 2006 to 2016, university ...
As another school year is about to begin, students are searching for ways to save money. One of the biggest expenses for college students are textbooks, but there are numerous websites that strive to ...