Comments on: 7 Common Textbook Rental Questions

By: Nicholas Lee

Nicholas Lee — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:31:53 +0000

Acadreamia is pioneering a similar cheap textbook rental service in the UK. This service needs to develop in the UK, as its clearly successful in the USA at saving their students money on university textbooks. The only problem is some people don't understand as its so new in the UK!

By: bookrenter

bookrenter — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:47:24 +0000

Wow this is a very nice post. You really highlighted every aspect of renting text books. One thing that people do not take into account is when you buy text books from the school store you can sell them back at the end of the term. So the total expense is equal to the original price – the sellback price, and from this perspective the actual savings for renting would be less. The only problem with this calculation is, the book store doesn’t always buy every one of your books back. Usually its a sure thing with big text books and if it isn’t the last term of the school year, but you can never be sure.

By: Nate Desmond

Nate Desmond — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:47:05 +0000

@ Sarah

Thanks for your input! I have not written anything about ebooks vs. traditional books… yet.

Actually, I have not really given much thought to e-textbooks, but that might be a good thing to investigate.

Have you used e-textbooks? What is your experience?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:21:25 +0000

i have been all over your site and have not yet found anything about opting for ebooks instead of the traditional bound book copies….do you have any opinions or posts on this?

LOVE your blog!

Thanks!

By: Victor

Victor — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:53:52 +0000

http://www.chegg.com

Don’t buy books, rent them!

Use chegg coupon code CC105203 to get 5 % off your entire order PLUS free shipping !!!

Use the same code and get an extra $5.00 cash back when selling your old used textbooks to chegg !!!!!!!!!!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:22:23 +0000

Not only have I researched extensively but I have actually used Chegg.com for both my sons for the past semester, they have been both effecient and professional. I saved at least $75 per book over USED prices and 60% over new, and the transactions went perfectly.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:37:53 +0000

Neither company is a scam, but rarely do I think renting is truly the least expensive way for students to get textbooks. People get too caught up in the upfront cost instead of looking at the whole picture. Even if you can’t find a used book as cheap as a rental, the used book can still be sold back at the end of the semester, whereas you just have to give up the rental. The savings are significant enough if I can sell it back that I’m willing to risk new editions coming out and not being able to sell one or two books back in a semester.

By: Nate Desmond

Nate Desmond — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:48:28 +0000

Heather,

You said that Chegg.com and Bookrenter.com are both essentially scams. I have done research on both companies and the vast majority of reviews are highly favorable.

For instance, CampusGrotto wrote a favorable review at http://www.campusgrotto.com/review-chegg.com-textbook-rental-service.html.

Where did you get your information?

Thanks,
Nate

By: heather

heather — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:37:35 +0000

If you do your research, you would know that both Chegg and Bookrenter have poor reviews. They are essentially a scam.

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