Mel Kleiman

Students Go to School on Textbook Rentals

August 24, 2010

FROM RETAILWIRE:
Paying for a college education is expensive enough, so why not look to cut costs wherever possible? That appears to be the motivation driving an increase in textbook rentals on campuses across the U.S. Do you see textbook rentals growing?      [more...]

It is not only a question of renting; hopefully it is a question of e-books. The sooner we drive down the cost of text books the better off we will be. It is over 30 years since I graduated and only once or twice did I ever go back to a text book that I had bought.

Once you learn the knowledge from most courses, you will never need the text book again and most likely by the time you graduate the information will no longer be of any value--and if it is, the way it is presented in text books has no real value.