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McGraw-Hill profit higher but warns on outlook Reuters The company, which also sells textbooks, said the ratings business was hurt by a drop-off in debt issuance in the second quarter, prompted by concerns about ... See all stories on this topic »

Up to 90% off textbooks at Borders and more ways to save for school WalletPop (blog) With school just around the corner, it's time to start shopping for textbooks again. Begin buying now and save some cash. With these deals going on, ... See all stories on this topic »

Activists plan to protest textbook's Islam portrayal tonight OCRegister By RYAN MAC ACT! for America contends district uses "cleansed'' portrayals in textbooks. Islamic groups say the group has its own agenda. ... See all stories on this topic »

Stephen Colbert says that Texas can't afford new science textbooks because of ... PolitiFact Still, another claim caught our ear: "It turns out that Texas has an $18 billion budget shortfall and can't afford its new science textbooks," he said, ... See all stories on this topic »

Florence school district recycles old textbooks WAFF By Nick Lough - bio email FLORENCE, AL (WAFF) - As budget shortfalls continue and class sizes rise, a Shoals area school district sent an allotment of ... See all stories on this topic »

Transportation vs. textbooks Indianapolis Star (blog) If he assumed this service is a necessary requirement for common schools, Zoeller needs to explain how districts already charge fees for textbooks and other ... See all stories on this topic »

Barnes & Noble launches eBook software for students eSchool News (subscription) College students spend $800 to $1100 a year on textbooks, according to government and industry reports. The cost of books has tripled between 1986 and 2004, ... See all stories on this topic » eSchool News (subscription)

XanEdu Launches iPad Publishing Program for Educators PR Newswire (press release) ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- XanEdu, the leading faculty-preferred provider of CoursePacks and custom textbooks, has launched an iPad ... See all stories on this topic »

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by Tom Tessin
Everyone needs textbooks when they go to college. If you’re one of the few that don’t need one, and are lucky enough to gather your information on the Internet, than that’s great! You’re already on the path to saving a lot of money. What I want to point out today is that there are many great ways to save on textbooks, and I wanted to show you exactly how it can be done, because it’s really not that hard at all!
NEVER buy at the book store
What you’re going to find out when you head down to your college is that the bookstore is going to rip you off. Never ever buy your book at the bookstore, because you can save a fortune, even if you buy your books online. Most professors are going to give you a list before the class starts, or during the first day. What you’re going to want to do is write down that ISBN number, and head online. Most good professors are going to give you a few weeks to get the book.
Buy online as used
The best way to buy textbooks online is by buying a used set. What you’ll want to do is head to sites such as Amazon, and Half. You’ll want to search for your book, and it should pop up with a new price. It’s up to you if you want to pay for a new book, or a used book. When you’re ready to purchase a book as a used price, what you’re going to want to do is look at what the merchant says about the book. Sometimes there’s going to be highlighter marks, or maybe a few ripped pages. Most merchants on the Internet are flexible. As long as they give you an honest opinion, you will find out that the book that you purchase will do the trick.
When you buy used online, you will find out that this is easily going to save you at least 50%. When you’re done with the books at the end of the semester, you can easily turn around, and sell them back on Half, or Amazon. The reason you’ll want to avoid eBay is solely because it’s going to be a 7 day auction block, and students tend to purchase books when the classes start. So, if you time it wrong, you’re just going to waste your money in fees, which is never a good thing.
Buying used will always be the way to go with school work. If you don’t feel comfortable waiting for the first day of class, you can try, and call up your local bookstore. They will be able to tell you exactly what book you’re looking for. Check online, and don’t be discouraged if you find out that it’s not on there. If you find out that no one is selling, it may be the college’s scam to get you to buy it there. The last thing you’ll want to do is just search, and if you can find it used, do it!
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New websites allow you to download -- and even edit -- your textbooks

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 2009-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the new Textbooks Trade-In program, which allows customers to exchange used textbooks in return for an Amazon.com gift card. Available year-round, the Textbooks Trade-In program will offer students the ability to trade in textbooks they no longer need for a great price. For more information about the Textbooks Trade-In program, visit: http://www.amazon.com/tradeinbooks.

Textbooks Trade-In offers great trade-in prices and a wide selection of eligible titles. Not only is it easy to use, but students can avoid long lines at the bookstore and trade in their textbooks from their dorm rooms or from home. Students just visit www.amazon.com/tradeinbooks, and search for the books they want to trade. Then students can print a pre-paid shipping label and drop the package in the mail. Once the book is received and verified by a third-party merchant, an Amazon.com gift card will be deposited into the student’s Amazon.com account. This gift card can be used toward the purchase of next semester’s books, or the millions of other items on Amazon.com. Already popular with used DVDs and video games, Textbooks Trade-In is the third program of its kind on Amazon.com.

“We’re thrilled to add the trade-in feature to the Amazon.com Textbooks store,” said Julie Todaro, director of Books at Amazon.com. “Our student customers know they can rely on Amazon.com for a great selection of titles and low textbook prices, and we’re happy to be able to offer them another service to help them save money and time.”

The Amazon.com Textbooks store (www.amazon.com/textbooks) helps students manage the high cost of textbooks by offering savings of up to 30 percent off the list price of more than 100,000 new textbooks and up to 90 percent off the list price of millions of used textbooks.
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Drill it into your head that your campus bookstore is overpriced. But using a combination of these methods, I’ve saved hundreds of dollars on books. (My personal record for biggest savings was a $180 pair of textbooks at the bookstore for $18 total online—that’s including shipping!)
Condensed instructions for the most popular method: buying books online

Step 1. Get the ISBN for the book you need. It’s on the back cover.

Step 2. Search for the best prices on http://dealoz.com and http://bigwords.com/. They look through all the dozens of online merchants and compare prices for you, but they don’t always list the same places, so you’ll have to use both search engines.

Step 3. Use http://www.retailmenot.com/ to search for coupon codes before settling on what appears to be the cheapest option. You would enter amazon.com, abebooks.com, or whatever.
These are the same steps but with important but often neglected details spelled out:

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As California moves forward with the first open-source digital textbook program in the nation this fall, the best content seems a lot less like Wikipedia and a lot more like traditional publishing.

Bulky, hefty and downright expensive, conventional school textbooks may rank as the most outdated part of our nation's public education system. Many observers, including Chris Anderson, author of Free, have speculated that crowd sourcing could help bring down the cost of textbooks and improve their quality--but chipping away at the publishing industry's last profit center has proven more challenging in practice. In 2002, the California Open-Source Textbook Project aimed to produce a history textbook via Wikibooks that it estimated could save California $200 million per year. To date, the project has never cobbled together a complete book.
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SUCCESS in Silicon Valley often emerges through trial and error. Willingness to buck popular trends can help, too.
Just ask Osman Rashid and Aayush Phumbhra, the co-founders of Chegg.com, a company that rents textbooks to college students.
When the two entrepreneurs started Chegg, then called CheggPost, in 2003, they envisioned a sort of Craigslist for college campuses, a network of university-based Web sites where students would buy and sell everything from used mattresses to textbooks. Like most Internet start-ups of that time, the plan was to make money from advertising.
It didn’t turn out that way. CheggPost gained some traction on a handful of campuses but didn’t take off. Still, the experience offered a few valuable lessons.
Mr. Rashid noticed that a majority of the traffic on the site was from students looking for used textbooks. With textbooks being the largest expense for students, after tuition and room and board, and with their cost soaring, that wasn’t surprising.
Yet the Craigslist model didn’t work. When classes ended in the spring, sellers couldn’t find many buyers online and sold their used books to the college store, often for pennies on the dollar. By the time students migrated back to campus in the fall, willing online sellers were few and far between.
So, in 2007, Mr. Rashid and Mr. Phumbhra went back to the drawing board and came up with the idea of renting books. At the time, Silicon Valley venture capitalists were focused on content, social networks and other businesses that could be supported by advertising, so finding investors wasn’t easy.
“People thought we were crazy,” Mr. Rashid said.
Now, as Chegg prepares for its third academic year in the textbook rental business, the business is growing rapidly. Jim Safka, a former chief executive of Match.com and Ask.com who was recently recruited to run Chegg, said the company’s revenue in 2008 was more than $10 million. This year, Chegg surpassed that in January alone, Mr. Safka said.
Based on that kind of growth, the company was able to raise $25 million in December from some of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
“The textbook business was wildly inefficient,” said Mike Maples Jr., managing partner at Maples Investments, a fund that invests in young start-ups; it was one of Chegg’s first outside investors.
With demand for good deals on textbooks running high, Chegg’s success comes in large part from being able to address those inefficiencies. While Chegg primarily rents books, it is also essentially acting as a kind of “market maker,” gathering books from sellers at the end of a semester and renting — or sometimes selling — them to other students at the start of a new one. That provides liquidity to the market, said Yannis Bakos, associate professor of management at the Stern School of Business at New York University.
“The model is clever,” Professor Bakos said. “If they execute well, it will be an accomplishment.”
E-commerce was all the rage with investors during the Internet boom of the late 1990s. Of course, many start-ups failed. In recent years, most of the successful ideas in e-commerce have been refinements or variations of models that had been tried before.
In the case of Chegg and some budding competitors, the inspiration was Netflix.
“We benefit from the comfort zone that people have with renting things online from Netflix,” said Colin Barceloux, the co-founder of BookRenter.com, a Chegg rival that is also based in Silicon Valley.
Alan Bradford, a senior at Arizona State University, read about Chegg in a campus newspaper in 2008 and calculated that his bill for books that semester would have been $334 with Chegg, far less than the $657 he paid. Since then, he has ordered about a dozen textbooks from Chegg.
“Nobody likes paying for textbooks,” he said.
CHEGG is shorthand for “chicken and egg,” a reference to what Mr. Rashid called students’ quandary after graduation: they need experience to get a job, but can’t get experience without having a job.
Before the company grew relatively flush from investors’ cash and hundreds of thousands of customers on more than 5,000 campuses, it had to resort to creative bootstrapping.
Chegg began renting books before it owned any, so when an order came in, its employees would surf the Web to find a cheap copy. They would buy the book using Mr. Rashid’s American Express card and have it shipped to the student. Eventually, Chegg automated the system.
But as the orders multiplied, Mr. Rashid said, so did the traffic on his credit card, leading American Express to suspect fraud and threaten to suspend the account. He said he persuaded American Express not only to keep the card active, but also to issue a couple of dozen more so Chegg could spread out the orders.
There is plenty of secret sauce to Chegg’s business, including logistics and software to determine the pricing and sourcing of books, as well as how many times a given book can be rented. The savings can vary from book to book. A macroeconomics textbook that retails for $122 was available on Chegg for $65 for one semester; an organic chemistry title retailing for $123 was offered for $33. (Round-trip shipping can add $4 to a book.)
Those kinds of savings are turning students into fans, Mr. Safka said. “Word of mouth,” he said, “has put wind in the company’s sails.”

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