In 2008, former President George W. Bush signed a re-authorization of the Higher Education Act. It had three provisions aimed at driving down textbook costs. U.S Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was the ...

Now in its third semester, the Brown Bookstore's textbook rental program is an increasingly popular cost-saving tool among students. About 1,400 students used the program last semester, compared to ...

California State University, Sacramento is one of approximately 100 schools in the nation using such a program, in which book warehouses or publishers sell popular book titles to universities, ...

All book titles for rent have a sign showing new and used prices in addition to the rent-it-for price. If a certain textbook at the BYU Store currently costs $213.80 brand new. Used it would be ...