Comments on: Rent Your Textbooks?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:18:17 +0000

@James - thanks for coming by and letting people know about that site - it could certainly be helpful! The one problem I see with “helpIneedbooks” is that you can’t filter out international editions. I don’t like buying those because they’re very hard to sell after I use them. I would rather rent than get an international edition - that’s just my preference, so I like search engines that let me filter those out.

By: james

james — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:27:00 +0000

First of all thanks for writing this article. I do not agree with renting textbooks, its just a way for a company to take one textbook and make many times its worth. I’d rather use a website like http://www.helpineedbooks.com which searches the majority of the bookstores like amazon, half, valore, powells etc in seconds and gives the condition, price and a link to the book. I found this saves me more and like you said I can keep the book or sell it back.

By: Cheap Textbook Rentals

Cheap Textbook Rentals — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:42:40 +0000

Chegg is a good company - we are an affiliate of theirs!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:17:39 +0000

@ilamma - Yes! It really does work! I’ve rented textbooks from them twice now, and it’s just been great. Pay about half price, then send it back at the end of the class with pre-paid postage. I highly recommend this service!

By: ilamma

ilamma — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:34:24 +0000

I’m glad I found out this post by accident on Google. I never thought of textbooks renting and it’s really an amazing idea.

Any first-hands experience on this ? Does it really work ?

Thanks so much for the idea !

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:44:18 +0000

Whyrentbooks.com is absolutely AMAZING!!! This site is the future guys! You’ve gotta check it out!

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:56:36 +0000

I found another site with a really cool twist to the whole textbook renting scheme. They actually allow students to make money renting out books they already own on WhyRentBooks.com. I’ve listed five books and I’ve already rented one out! It’s nice to know too that your money is going to other students, not just a company.

By: JW Thornhill

JW Thornhill — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:11:08 +0000

Thanks for the post!!

I was able to find a book I needed for my next course!!

Thanks again

By: Aayush

Aayush — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:44:06 +0000

Hi Stephanie:

I did not mean list price and that is why I said selling price. Most of the selling price on our website is lower than the list price on amazon.

Also, the student is renting the book so technically we are doing a nice thing by allowing the user to buy it. We have to go and source another book. We just request the student gives us ample notice so that we can get the replacement in time.

By: George Burke

George Burke — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:00:26 +0000

Text book rental is a fantastic idea. BookSwim — http://www.bookswim.com — also rents books: leisure reading fiction and nonfiction, but have a monthly subscription model which really keeps the price low for big readers. If the average bestseller costs $20 to buy, our book rental model allows potentially 5 or more books at the same price.

Stephanie, you may want to take a look and show your readers how they can save money by renting books instead of buying.