Amazon Launches Textbook Rental

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by gagan2020 • 14 years ago

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koala_advert• 14 years ago

This doesn't seem very profitable when so many textbooks come out with a new edition every year.

DenisM• 14 years ago

Look at the prices - e.g. $170 new, $100 to rent.

http://www.amazon.com/Discrete-Mathematics-Applications-Kenn...

murtza• 14 years ago

Chegg, an online textbook rental company, up to now has been doing pretty well.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/05/teardown-chegg/

Chegg's revenue is going to take a hit if Amazon is competing in the same space.

saraid2162• 14 years ago

Tangential, but does anyone know why Amazon's PR has a completely unrecognizable domain name?

taylan• 14 years ago

There is something fishy here. Neither www.corporate-ir.net nor corporate-ir.net resolve. And the site asks you to login.

Relevant link is:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/465600/

gagan2020• 14 years ago

A whois query (http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=corporate-ir.net...) reveal corporate-ir.net domain belongs to Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc.

I got this link from https://twitter.com/amazoncareers. Now, that account is authentic or not that's another question.

ekianjo• 14 years ago

This only applies to college students... too bad. Renting books would be great for the general public, too.

s_henry_paulson• 14 years ago

I was going to make a library joke, but seriously, your local library has access to an amazing amount of books.

Even if your particular library doesn't have a particular book, there is likely a library somewhere in their network that has it, and will ship it for free.

All you have to do is ask.

Amazon Launches Textbook Rental

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