Amazon Scores Again... Well at least for me

Good news for all the students out there! Amazon is now renting out text books through the Kindle Store.

As a student, I always complained about how much the textbooks costs and every time I sell it back to the bookstore, they will only buy it back at the fraction of the price, or even worse, they are changing their book from 25^th edition to 26^th edition, where the only difference is the page numbers.

Another complaint of mine was the fact that the bookstore will always gain a profit through students. They sell a book for 100 dollars, buy back for 10 and sell it again for another 100! Come on now; college students are poor. Apparently, the “National Association of College Stores estimate that U.S. college stores posted $10.25 billion in sales in the 2009-2010 fiscal year with each student spending $745 on average.” That’s a lot of money!

But with the rental system that Amazon is offering, students can save up to 80% by renting books for a period of 30 to 360 days. I know what I am going to do next year with my books.