Unless you have exceptional athletic ability or wealthy parents, college is an extremely expensive adventure. My large student loans that I will be paying on for the next decade or two can verify that if you have any doubt. I can only imagine how bad it must be for medical students.
One of the most annoying expenses is the exorbitant price of textbooks. I am pretty sure every college student has paid $100+ for a textbook that they didn’t even open, but were required to buy. Then you go to sell the book back, and they offer you a whopping $10. Well, at least you can buy lunch.
One of my greatest discoveries in college was the ability to buy, and sell, used textbooks on Amazon. This saved me tons of money throughout my years, but I was still stuck with books that I would never use again that weren’t worth the postage to mail back. They now have a new feature that makes life better on both ends.
Tens of thousands of textbooks are now available through the launch of Kindle Textbook Rental. Through this program students can rent textbooks for anywhere from 30 to 360 days. For shorter periods they can save 80% off the print list price. The rental period can be extended at anytime for a period as short as a day, or even buy the book at anytime.
Some of the cool features are that you can make margin notes and highlights that you can save even after your rental period ends. Should you decide to rent the book again all of your notes will be retained through Whispersync technology on the Amazon Cloud.
Kindle textbooks are also available through the free Kindle apps available on PC, Mac, Apple devices, Windows phone, Android, and Blackberry devices. That means that students can access their textbooks from pretty much anywhere.
For more information the press release can be found here, or you can go straight to their website at www.amazon.com/kindletextbooks
