Textbook+Rental+in+Bookstore

==**As of March 14, 2011**

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 * ===**The PUB bookstore** has 70 titles available for students to rent.===
 * ===The savings possible are 35-50% as compared to new purchase cost.===
 * ===There is no list of available textbooks on the website.===
 * ===To find out if a particular class has a rental textbook option:===
 * ===Look the class up on the bookstore web page, then see if you can find a RED LINE under the ISBN number of the book. This indicates the rental price.===


 * An off campus ONLINE option: **CHEGG TEXTBOOK RENTALS**

== March 15, 2011 from John Otto

Another option is buying books online from one of the bookseller aggregators. My favorite is [|DealOz.com], which includes many of the other online booksellers and bookseller aggregators, such as AbeBooks, Alibris, and Half.com. I like DealOz's user interface for searching, overall display, and for display of the price including shipping chargers.

DealOz also has built-in the capability to search for hardcover or softcover versions of the same edition. It's worthwhile to check the price of both, because it's not an automatic given that the HB will be more expensive. When I was a student myself, I often found the HB to be cheaper. Presumably this is because of an abundance of brand-new HB books with nothing wrong with them besides a remainder mark.


 * [|DealOz.com]**