Cutting down on textbook costs

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Updated: 9/29/2011 4:22 pm
EUGENE, Ore.--Most college students look for ways to find cheaper textbooks, and the University of Oregon Duck store is offering a few ways to help. Manager Bruce Lundy says they try to help if they can. A website called "BookRenter.com" is linked to the store site. This site allows the customer to rent a book for a cheaper price, and then return it within three months. The book comes with a prepaid shipping label, so the customer needs to just take it to the post office.

Lundy says this year they have a number of higher-priced titles for rent in the store, and there is also a price-comparison page available on the website. Students can access this page while shopping. Lundy says they make their prices as competitive as possible, and sometimes even beat the online prices. Lundy explains, “It’s a lot of work but our goal is to give the students as many choices as we can and offer the best possible prices on their course materials.”

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jayjahal - 10/11/2011 10:22 AM
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BookRenter is great and they have great prices. Students can save even more buy using book renter coupon from www.bookrentercoupons.com

thisjustin - 9/22/2011 1:12 PM
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Fight back. Avoid the campus bookstore. Go online if you want cheaper textbooks. As long as some people are still paying retail prices the publishers are not going to be compelled to end their monopoly on student's wallets. Go online and search for used books, international editions, older editions, rentals, and even e-books to combat the high prices. The only problem with this solution is that there are so many places online promising cheaper books. That's why I use http://www.bigwords.com They are a textbook price comparison search engine that searches all the online retailers and rental site to find you the best prices, no matter which format you are seeking.

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