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Textbook Torrents Eases Students Wallet

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2008-08-07 19:38:48 by Ryan in CyberNet
...textbooks. The site, called Textbook Torrents , requires that you register for free before gaining access to their vast database containing torrents to nearly 6,000 textbooks. After that you can browse, search, and download the textbook torrents as you please I was actually surprised to find that several of the textbooks that I used in...
 
Tags: textbook torrents, torrents, students, recent college, college, college students, textbooks, replace textbooks, top piracy schools
 
 
 
 
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Amazons New Kindle will target sizable($5.5 billion)textbook market

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2008-07-18 11:15:54 by Asma Kaleem in Startup Meme
...textbook market. US alone has captured a $5.5 billion market annually depicting the ever growing need of textbooks. Therefore to cater the needs of steadily growing global market, Amazon is planing to roll out the large screen Kindle of about 8.5 x 11 in the next year. Along with this large screen, a smaller form Kindle is also in pipeline...
 
Tags: kindle, form kindle, larger kindle, amazon type kindle, amazon, amazon ship, textbook market, kindle contribution, universities textbook market
 
 
 
 
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Amazon To Target $5.5 Billion Textbook Market With New Kindle?

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2008-07-17 23:49:56 by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch
...textbook market, a $5.5 billion market annually in the U.S. alone Most students still buy print versions of textbooks, and carrying them around is as big a pain as it has been for past generations of students. Most publishers now offer electronic versions of their textbooks - McGraw-Hill Education, for example, publishes 95% of their books...
 
Tags: kindle, current kindle, kindle models, form factor kindle, heavy textbooks, textbook market, textbooks, print, print versions
 
 
 
 
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The Top 5 Sites To Find Your College Textbooks

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2008-08-21 16:01:48 by Nick Volpe in MakeUseOf.com
...textbooks. Textbooks can cost anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars per semester. For the average undergraduate college student that could amount to approximately $5,000 just for textbooks! As with tuition, there are great opportunities to save a lot of money on textbooks and my favorite methods live online These are my top 5 sites...
 
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Avoid campus bookstore prices with BookRenter

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2008-05-28 22:53:00 by Michelle Thatcher in Webware.com
...textbooks that cost hundreds of dollars but only net you a few bucks once the class is over Online textbook rental service BookRenter wants to ease at least this part of a student's financial pain. As the name implies, BookRenter will rent you a textbook for a set period of time, with the option to extend your rental or even purchase the book...
 
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Amazon Kindle to Replace Textbooks?

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2008-07-01 20:09:54 by Ryan in CyberNet
...textbooks on Amazons Kindle e-reader . The Kindle sells for $359 by Amazon, and uses Sprints high-speed EVDO data network to let customers download new books on-the-go. The device has actually been more popular than I anticipated, and its now catching the attention of universities Being a recent college grad myself I can say that having to...
 
Tags: kindle, amazon, amazon kindle terms, amazon tax bill, kindle sells, amazons kindle e-reader, amazon fights, amazon mp3 downloader, books
 
 
 
 
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Righteous Students: We Don't Want Kindles -- We Want Cheap Books

2008-08-27 06:00:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...textbooks : The publishers who run the textbook market have no incentive to go digital. And even if they did, they'd have no incentive to change their pricing structure Now comes an earnest report from the well-meaning Student PIRG group that says more or less the same thing: The students correctly point out that textbooks are crazily...
 
Tags: textbooks, digital textbooks, digital, digital options students, market, used-book market, textbook market, textbook, publishers short-circuit
 
 
 
 
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Righteous Students: We Don't Want Kindles -- We Want Cheap Books

2008-08-27 06:00:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...textbooks : The publishers who run the textbook market have no incentive to go digital. And even if they did, they'd have no incentive to change their pricing structure Now comes an earnest report from the well-meaning Student PIRG group that says more or less the same thing: The students correctly point out that textbooks are crazily...
 
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Self-Hating Old Media: Its About Time

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2008-07-29 01:58:19 by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins in Mashable!
...textbooks. In the piece, amazingly, they actually condone piracy But what if someone really does write an incredible organic chemistry book, one that will let students learn twice as much in half the time Thats why I say that professors rather than textbook publishers or authors are the villains. They should be the gatekeepers, the ones who...
 
Tags: condone piracy, piracy, anti-piracy domain, news tech blog, blog, news, textbook publishers, publishers, publishers raise prices