Amazon.com is moving into the business of physical textbook rentals, expanding its footprint by offering a cheaper alternative to students, according to a support page on the company’s site. The ...

Amazon on Monday unveiled its Kindle Textbook Rental service, which lets students rent textbooks on their Kindles or Kindle apps for up to a year. Amazon promised savings of up to 80 percent.

Whether you went to college decades ago or your child is going today, you're familiar with the time-honored and wallet-emptying tradition of buying new textbooks for a premium at the beginning of the ...

Textbooks are a huge expense for college students, and while digitally downloaded versions may save a few bucks and several pounds over paper copies, you lose the option to resell the book at the end ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Amazon has announced that it is kicking off a new program that allows students to rent textbooks rather than purchasing new or used at their ...

Amazon.com is jumping into the digital textbook rentals business with a new Kindle rental service. The Kindle Textbook Rental service will enable college students to save by renting and avoiding ...

E-book textbook rentals sound like an amazing idea. Neither the textbook rental market or the digital textbook concept have brought the price of quality textbooks down as fast as we'd like. But ...

Amazon has introduced e-book textbook rentals just in time for the fall semester, allowing students to save up to 80 percent on some titles. E-textbook rentals can be viewed not just on Amazon’s ...

With the fall semester just a few short weeks away for many college students, Amazon’s announcement is more than a load off their heavy bookbag-toting shoulders. The e-commerce company, which last ...

Amazon on Monday announced Kindle Textbook Rental, which will enable students to save up to 80 percent off the retail prices of textbooks, by renting them as ebooks from the Kindle Store, instead of ...