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" There&amp;#039;s been a lot of fuss about the emerging textbook rental market in the United States. It gives college students a release from the wallet-crunching costs of purchasing expensive textbooks that no one ever wants after you&amp;#039;ve used them for one semester, and it certainly gives you a chance to lower the hidden costs of college that you don&amp;#039;t see in your acceptance packets. I spent countless end-of-semester days trying to convince buyers that my formerly $200 textbook had barely been used and was still worth something (Look no farther than my bookcase to see how successful I was.) Well, there&amp;#039;s a new group moving into textbook rentals: Barnes &amp;amp;amp; Noble. The major bookseller is going full force into the new area, according to a Barnes &amp;amp;amp; Noble release (hat tip, Chronicle of Higher Education). After testing out a pilot program at three schools, Barnes &amp;amp;amp; Noble will allow students to rent textbooks at 25 campus bookstores across the country, the company says. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve had a tremendous response from students and faculty to our rental program and, as a result, have continued to expand it to other colleges and universities across the country,&amp;quot; Max Roberts, president of Barnes &amp;amp;amp; Noble College Booksellers, says in the release. &amp;quot;What makes our program so unique is that we&amp;#039;ve made saving on textbooks even easier for students by providing them the option of ordering their rentals online and having them shipped or picked up at their campus bookstore.&amp;quot; Who know what impact the move will have on the big-money market that is college textbook sales, but it&amp;#039;s certainly a warning shot to booksellers on college campuses across the country. With sites like Chegg and CourseSmart already making inroads in textbook rental, Barnes &amp;amp;amp; Noble adds a big name and credibility to a blossoming market. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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