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Barnes & Noble Expanding Campus Bookstore Textbook Rental Program no comments
Barnes & Noble says that its campus bookstore textbook rental trial held in January was very successful. B&N will be rolling out its rental program to hundreds of colleges and universities this fall.
From the press release:
Barnes & Noble piloted its groundbreaking textbook rental program in January, becoming the first major retailer to offer a multi-channel textbook rental program providing students the option of renting in the campus bookstore’s physical or online store. The response to the pilot program exceeded all expectations, as thousands of students eagerly embraced the textbook rental service. In fact, more than 90% of the participating students surveyed said they liked the program and would rent from their Barnes & Noble campus bookstore again.
Along with delivering savings of more than 50% over the cost of purchasing a new, printed textbook, Barnes & Noble’s rental program contains the features higher education students want most, including:
- The convenience of renting their books either in the campus bookstore or from the bookstore’s Web site, eliminating the need to pay shipping costs or wait for their books to arrive in the mail
- The choice to return their rental textbooks to the campus bookstore or via mail using free return shipping
- The flexibility to use a wide variety of rental fee payment options, including financial aid and campus debit cards, as well as cash and credit cards
- The ability to highlight and take notes in their rented books
- The freedom to keep their books for up to ten days after the last day of finals
- The comfort of getting automated, reminder emails alerting them that the rental period is ending and to return their books to the bookstore
Following the tremendous success of its pilot program, Barnes & Noble moved swiftly to make the rental program available to every school where it manages the on-campus bookstore. Hundreds of schools chose to offer textbook rentals at Barnes & Noble for the fall term – more than double the company’s initial projections – with hundreds more expected to add the service for the winter term.
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Barnes & Noble Adds Rentals to Its Textbook Offerings; NOOKstudy Sweepstakes no comments
Barnes & Noble announced today that in addition to offering higher education students digital textbooks and new and used paper texts, it will also begin renting textbooks. The new textbook rental service will be available through the Barnes & Noble Website.
B&N’s previously announced NOOKstudy program is also available from today. To celebrate B&N is having a sweepstakes – the Barnes & Noble College Giveaway Sweepstakes – which will give a $5,000 cash prize to one winner. Students who download NOOKstudy through October 29, 2010 will be automatically entered in the contest. See the NOOKstudy page for more details and non-purchase route of entry.
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eReader News – 6/15/2010 no comments
Looking for a place to connect your Wi-Fi ereader or iPad while out on the road? Starting July 1, 2010 Starbucks will offer unlimited free Wi-Fi powered by AT&T that anyone can access with one click without a Starbucks card.
Starbucks has also partnered with Yahoo to create the Starbucks Digital Network which will offer digital content and a few business related tools such as a resume writing application. Free unrestricted access to various paid sites such as WSJ.com will also be available. Some of the content providers listed as participating in the launch of Starbucks Digital Network include iTunes, The New York Times, Patch, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! and Zagat. The Starbucks Digital Network will debut in the fall and will be available only at US company operated Starbucks stores.
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Leading textbook retailer www.ecampus.comhas announced
that they have expanded their textbook rental program to include all major titles for the fall semester. Almost half a million titles are available to rent now.
When renting textbooks, students pay a much lower price for the title and then return it at the end of the semester or school year. This makes eCampus.com a more economical solution than the college bookstore.
Besides renting textbooks, eCampus.com also offers digital etextbooks and buys and sells used textbooks. The promo code JOCK can be use for a five percent discount on textbook rentals at eCampus.com – the coupon expires on July 15,2010.
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Although Amazon and Penguin reportedly have trouble on agreeing on some things such as the prices of ebooks, they have apparently been able to reach agreement as to who the winners are for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.
The winner for the general fiction category is Patricia McArdle for her novel “Farishta,” which will be published by Riverhead books.
The winner for the young adult fiction category is Amy Ackley for her novel “Sign Language,” which will be published by Viking Children’s Books.
Both of these titles are available for pre-order at Amazon.
The winners were selected by tapping the wisdom of the crowd:
“Thousands of Amazon.com customers participated in the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award by posting reviews and casting votes for the winners,” said Jeff Belle, vice president, U.S. books, Amazon. “The results of this year’s vote were the closest we’ve ever had, which is indicative of both the competitiveness of the entries and the exceptional work from our finalists.”
Both winners will receive a publishing contract from Penguin Group USA, which includes a $15,000 advance.
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