Besides tuition, the main sapper of money from a college student's pocket is textbooks. They're expensive! The average science textbook often costs $150 or more! And let's not even talk about those unlucky semesters where you happen to have more than 1 science class. So I've seen a few advertisements for CampusBookRentals.com and decided to look them up today. I must say, I was a little more than pleasantly surprised. I looked up a pretty popular Chemistry book (ISBN 013601976 if you want to look it up) to compare the purchase price to the rental price. The price to buy was $172, pretty steep for a book you're probably only going to use one semester. A looked at the price to rent the same book and was floored. Only $28, an over 80% decrease from the purchase price! I looked up a few more books, including several I'm going to need for classes next semester. Same thing!
Okay, I know, I know. Why should you rent a book when you can buy it, right? Well think about it for a second. You buy a book for almost $200, use it one semester and sell it back for less than 10% of the original price. But if you rent from CampusBookRentals.com, it's a ton cheaper and shipping is even paid both ways! So tell me honestly, what reason do you have not to rent your books? I know how I'm getting my textbooks next semester and I strongly advise you do the same. Then maybe there'll be a few less "poor college students".
