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Booklovers who can’t afford the latest best-seller will love today’s hot link.
Bookswim.com is an online book rental club, and you can rent as many titles as you want.
A membership costs $15 a month, but that’s still cheaper than buying a hardcover.
And if you really love it, there’s an option to buy it for cheaper than you’d get at the book store.
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This is it! The week you drive, head to the airport, jump on a train, or kiss your college student goodbye. But it is also a time of the year where spending on the college students certainly increases. But we have some ways you can save a lot of money without losing any of the educational value.
Today on Good Morning Maryland @ 9, Eric Ginsberg, a retail industry expert, sat down with Jamie to talk about how college students can now RENT their books, equipment, and other items in an effort to save them money.
Eric explained how the program works a lot like NetFlix does for movies. You can rent the books you need for the class and just return them in a pre-paid envelope at the end of the semester. You can do the same for equipment like expensive calculators you may only need for one semester of your college career. The advantage? You don’t have to pay a lot of money up-front for something you may not need again in four months.
To hear more of Eric’s examples and get other ideas, just click on the video box to the right of this article and see the segment again. And we have provided links to the left for more information.
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Round-up: 1. Textbooks to rent. Company Cengage Learning will jump into the college textbook rental market this December with CengageBrain.com. Already in business is the Netflix-like outfit BookSwim.com, which rents textbooks through a partnership with BookRenter.com………
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