Another round of good news for those students not wanting to pay the high prices of text books. This week, a press release sent by Jaimie L. Adler-Palter, of Bayleaf Communications, Inc., announced that Campus Book Rentals would be trying to help students win scholarships.
For your consideration, here is what the press release states:
In 2007, five visionary businessmen came together to build a revolutionary concept, one that would benefit college students across the nation. Campus Book Rentals has grown from an obscure idea to one of the world's largest textbook rental companies in just over two short years.
The service is similar to Netflix, the online movie-renting service where the DVDs are shipped to houses and then shipped back. The service is easy for students, and it's meant to save them money.
Alan Martin, CEO of Campus Book Rentals, built this company from the ground up with the help of his fellow businessmen, Todd McCormick, Shane Willard, Ken Martin, and Rocky Moline - all of which graduated from Utah's Weber State University. The idea came to him while he was a graduate student and was about to shell out hundreds of dollars for a yet another textbook.
"We all went to college," says Martin. "We know what it's like to have to work crazy hours for a month just to turn around and spend that hard-earned money on books you're only going to use once."
With all of the expenses a college student has to worry about, textbooks shouldn't be one of them. Campus Book Rentals helps students in the battle for their degrees. Over the past decade, textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of inflation, according to a 2007 study by the National Association of College Stores.
Though legislation in Congress and several states aims to bring down these costs, little has been accomplished. In the meantime, savvy students continue to shop for books online at sites like eBay and Amazon to try and save some cash, and then go back online to sell them to another savvy student. On average, college students shelled out $900 a semester for textbooks, according to a 2005 federal report.
In some cases, a single science book can cost $200. The price of textbooks nearly tripled between 1986 and 2004, rising an average of 6 percent a year. (During this same period, inflation rose a mere 3 percent a year.)
Campus Book Rentals now serves over 5,000 college campuses by renting textbooks at less than half the price college bookstores are selling them for.
But that's not all Campus Book Rentals is doing to lighten the load. They also randomly select 10 students per year to receive full textbook scholarships. That means free textbooks for an entire semester! Anyone can qualify for these scholarships by entering their name in a free drawing at CampusBookRentals.com.
"At the end of the day, we want every student to be aware that textbooks can be rented, then let them make the choice from there," explains Martin. "As of now, so few people even know renting is an option."
For more information, please visit www.CampusBookRentals.com or call 801.622.3610.
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