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Textbook rentals aren't new. WalletPop has covered several third party companies such as Chegg.com, which hire out 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 activity, 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 almost identical 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 cater 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 state look after 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 cooperate with 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 proceedings books online and end up holding up the entire class while they wait for a book to be shipped across the country via media letters.

In addition 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 teaching buying my textbooks used and selling them quickly, I wish there had been a rental option available when I was a student.

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

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