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Colleges Offering Textbook Rentals
One local college is helping students save money by offering textbook rentals. Metropolitan Community College is one of the few schools in the nation to start a textbook rental program, KMBC’s D… more →
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Colleges Offering Textbook Rentals
pilotdave wrote 1 year ago: One local college is helping students save money by offering textbook rentals. Metropolitan Communit … more →
College Textbook Discounts
pilotdave wrote 1 year ago: Most college students’ fall semesters are drawing to a close, leaving piles of textbooks unused or n … more →
The Future of Textbooks by Alex Case
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pilotdave wrote 1 year ago: Looking back on my 12 years of teaching English, if it is not just old age speaking I could swear th … more →
What Percentage of Students Buy their Textbooks Online?
pilotdave wrote 1 year ago: In spite of the attention paid to online sales of books and course materials, students reported purc … more →
How to Find Low Textbook Prices
pilotdave wrote 1 year ago: Lower prices on college textbooks are available overseas because some U.S. publishers have sold thes … more →
Are College Textbook Prices Going Up?
pilotdave wrote 1 year ago: Although college stores’ margins on new textbooks have remained steady since 1989, they’ve experienc … more →
Are College Book Store Margins Higher than Average Retail Margins?
pilotdave wrote 1 year ago: It’s important to remember that college stores are not traditional retailers. College stores are uni … more →
Textbook Tips
pilotdave wrote 1 year ago: This video gives students help, tips and ideas on using textbooks. Most of these ideas are commonly … more →
How Much Are College Book Stores Making On Textbooks?
pilotdave wrote 2 years ago: For new textbooks, college stores typically obtain the books they sell directly from publishers. Pub … more →
What is the average price for a textbook?
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pilotdave wrote 2 years ago: The average price of a new textbook is $52.36, and the average price of a used textbook is $40.01 ac … more →
Why are College Textbook Prices so High?
pilotdave wrote 2 years ago: Developing a new textbook and accompanying learning tools can cost more than $1 million. The largest … more →
College Textbooks: Amazon vs. Barnes and Noble
pilotdave wrote 2 years ago: The price listed on Amazon.com for a new copy of any college textbook is almost NEVER correct. Amazo … more →
College Ebooks
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pilotdave wrote 2 years ago: As the sales curve for new copies of a book asymptotically approaches zero, the per-book cost to the … more →
Textbooks: Joseph Gray's Opinion
pilotdave wrote 2 years ago: The textbook business is more like a racket than a business. The changing of a few words and page nu … more →
Who Really Makes Money Off Textbooks: College Bookstores
pilotdave wrote 2 years ago: Each copy of a text is sold by the publisher exactly once. A well-managed college bookstore will sel … more →
High Textbook Prices = Professor Kickbacks
pilotdave wrote 2 years ago: It is a well-known yet little-discussed fact in college publishing that “committee decisions”—in whi … more →
Cheap College Textbooks
pilotdave wrote 2 years ago: Cheap textbooks used to be something that college students were looking for, but now that there are … more →
Are College Textbooks Going Digital?
pilotdave wrote 2 years ago: Because of the rising cost of college textbooks, a congressional advisory panel is pushing a proposa … more →
