Earlier this year, Barnes Noble issued a press release on its
program of renting textbooks. The press release, dated January 11,
2010, is available here:
http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/press_releases/2010_jan_11_textbook_rental.html
The press release says that BN, which runs the college
I don't know about today, but when I was a student at Purdue University from
1964 - 1970, both Southworth's and University Book Store had a policy of buy a
new book pay full price. Turn it in at the end of the semester and get 50%
back. They then sold used books at 75% of the new book price
in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Textbook rentals?
I don't know about today, but when I was a student at Purdue University from
1964 - 1970, both Southworth's and University Book Store had a policy of buy a
new book pay full price. Turn it in at the end of the semester and get 50
We have a textbook rental program that has been in existence for many years,
run by the university. The rental fee is currently $40 per book. All
undergraduate hardback books are available for rental, but not paperbacks or
books for graduate classes (we have Master's programs). Students are
David Kreiner wrote:
I have mixed feelings about it for reasons already mentioned by others,
but students do like it. Another factor to consider, depending on who is
running the rental program, is what it means about financial pressure to
keep the current textbook. Our bookstore prefers for
, Tim [mailto:tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu]
Sent: Thu 7/22/2010 3:24 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] Textbook rentals?
Bob-
Out campus has a BN bookstore so we will have rentals this year. We are given
the choice to have our texts available or not within
I want to thank all of you who responded to my post on textbook rentals. As
someone who loves printed books and who kept most of his college textbooks from
the 1970s until very recently (had to make room), it pains me to see the
newer trend in students' more detached relationship to their
