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Barnes & Noble launches textbook rental service

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Monday, January 11, 2010

(Updated 10:31 am)

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NEW YORK (AP) — Barnes & Noble said Monday that it's launching a textbook rental program for college students.

The new program, available though campus bookstores and Barnes & Noble-managed Web sites, is designed to cut textbook costs by as much as 50 percent for some titles.

Textbooks rented online will be shipped to a campus bookstore.

The effort, operated through the New York company's subsidiary, Barnes & Noble College Booksellers LLC., is already in place in about 25 campus bookstores nationwide.

Barnes & Noble operates bookstores at nearly 640 colleges across the country, including UNCG, Elon University and High Point University, according to its Web site.

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igliigli

January 11, 2010 - 12:45 pm EST

Hope it succeds. Textbook costs are a budget breaker for many students.

deah

January 11, 2010 - 1:22 pm EST

Since B&N already runs a vast majority of the campus book stores I see this as another angle to grab as much as they can. I hope that the plan works, I just don't have any confidence that it will. My second child is in college now and we have found over the years that the bookstores (2 different universities) are exorbidantly priced. Online purchases of books (new and used) have been a real budget saver for us. We normally save $200-300 per semester by purchasing online. And, we resell the books and recoup some of what we spent.

mamaboilermaker

January 11, 2010 - 1:57 pm EST

With three of us in college right now, we have found Amazon to be best for purchases most of the time. There is a place called Chegg.com that rents textbooks. I think they also have a program in which they plant a tree for every book rented or purchased, but memory fails me at the moment.