Textbook Rental Saves Money and Trees
I cannot believe humans didn’t come up with this until now: avoiding the tyranny of the textbook-publisher racket by renting textbooks. (Author’s note: It’s entirely possible this rental option was around a few years ago when I was in school, and I was just too snobby to even allow the idea to enter my consciousness.)
It may not be feasible to rent all of your books every term; lab books tend to actually be written in, and some texts will be kept forever as reference books. But if you could rent just a few, you’d still be saving a fat wad of cash and would be helping to limit the power of the iron-fisted, textbook-publishing regime that rules the land of academia.
According to Alan Bradford over at Geek Stew (who alerted his fellow humans to this book-rental genius-ness), Chegg.com also plants a tree for every book rented, which means you’ll be saving the bacon of trees on several levels.
Posted by Alexa Harrington
all education is being commercialized but thanks to you for bringing this to my attention.
I like what these book rental sites are doing…and with this service you are able to save tons of money…I came across another book rental company called http://www.skoobit.com…you can really save hundreds of dollars with them..They were pretty easy to deal with and the books came on time…