Amazon Gets Into the Textbook Rental Business — Finally
Filed under: Amazon.com, Retail, College Finance, Saving Money
Whether you went to college decades ago or your child is going today, you’re familiar with the time-honored and wallet-emptying tradition of buying new textbooks for a premium at the beginning of the term, only to turn around and sell them at a depressing discount at semester’s end. But Amazon.com (AMZN) hopes to change all that.
The company has just launched Amazon Textbook Rental, a service from the Internet retailing giant that will allow students to rent textbooks at up to 70% off,…
Amazon Gets Into the Textbook Rental Business — Finally originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-08-10T11:08:00Z.
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