USU investigates renting textbooks

Utah State University's bookstore has found an interesting way to save college students a little moolah.

Beating the high cost of school books (Daily Herald, September 5 2007)

Basically the school rents the book to students instead of selling it to them. A $130 biology textbook can be rented for the semester for just 30 bucks. Not bad.

The service is in its second year of a three year trial. Mentioned in the article is UVSC's Ron Hammond who has essentially given up on assigning texts and instead uses journals found in the library and articles from the internet.

UVSC prof fights the text book cartel

UVSC sociology professor Ron Hammond is fed up with text book companies ripping off starving students. That is why he refusing to use them in his classes, instead he's using the vast resources of the internet to provide plenty of up-to-date study material for his students.

UVSC prof. quits books (Daily Herald, July 20 2007)

Pricey Textbooks Prompt UVSC Professor to Stop Using Them (KSL.com, July 20 2007)

Textbook prices too much, so UVSC prof eliminates their use (Salt Lake Tribune, July 20 2007)