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Textbook rentals aren't new. WalletPop has covered several third party companies such as Chegg.com, which rip textbooks to users at prices far below retail, but now publishers are getting in the game.

Cengage Learning is a big player in the textbook trade, providing digital and print textbooks under several different brands and many subjects, and will now rent textbooks to students for 40-70% off retail.

The discounted prices are nearly the same to that of other book rental services which are very close to representing the savings that a student would see from purchasing a used textbook and re-selling it at the end of the semester.

One of the reasons Cengage can furnish books at such a discount is that unlike selling a book, which enters a secondary market with no future revenue for the seller, rentals can take under one's wing publishers with profit every semester.

To stand out from the other book rental companies Cengage will send students an ebook of the first chapter so that students don't deceived by behind while the book is on the way. This may seem like a small bonus but in the eyes of the professor, me, it's a big deal.

Too often students wait until the first day of class to non-functioning books online and end up holding up the entire class while they wait for a book to be shipped across the country via media mail.

In too to the ebook, when the program goes live in December, students can visit CengageBrain.com to find audio, video and other extras to go along with their textbook rental.

Even though I got through set of beliefs buying my textbooks used and selling them quickly, I wish there had been a rental option available when I was a student.

Secure, buying and selling a book might save you a few dollars over a rental but in most cases...

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Not so in the set of for-profit online education. Online for-profits such as American Public University System and the University of Phoenix have for years strategically steered students toward e-textbooks in an take a crack at to shave costs and ensure a more reliable delivery method that, in the context of online education, might seem to win more sense. At Kaplan University's law school, digital texts account for around 80% of assigned reading. At Capella University, e-textbooks are an on tap and accepted option in nearly all 1,250 courses. In for-profit higher education, more than any other sector, the historic book is becoming obsolete.

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Los Angeles Times - Aug 16, 2009
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Los Angeles Times - Aug 12, 2009
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