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Renting Textbooks (Graduate Students)

This guide shares a number of alternatives to purchasing textbooks

Pepperdine Bookstore

The Pepperdine Bookstore sells and rents most of the textbooks for your classes.

Compare Reviews for Textbook Rental Companies

The College Investor has recently published a guide comparing textbook companies.
 

CENAGEbrain

CENAGEbrain.com.  "A single destination for more than 35,000 new print textbooks, textbook rentals, eBooks, single eChapters, and print, digital, and audio study tools. CengageBrain.com provides the freedom to purchase a-la-carte exactly what you need, when you need it."

http://www.cengage.com/us/ 

SlugBooks and other Rental Companies

Textbook Shopping Made Easy

By compiling prices on textbooks into one, convenient spot, SlugBooks claims that they provide students with the cheapest prices available - even if those prices happen to be at the university bookstore.  You can  search by ISBN or search by title. They compare textbook prices between the largest and most trustworthy online new, used, rental and digital textbook sellers, including Amazon and Chegg.

Chegg:  Chegg.com is a textbook rental service that offers more than 4.2 million titles. Students can go to www.chegg.com to order a book. When the rental term ends, students receive a reminder e-mail from Chegg, a prepaid postage label— provided by Chegg— and student drops the box off at the post office at no additional cost.  “Students who rent their textbooks from Chegg.com can choose to purchase their textbook at any time during the rental period.

VitalSource Books:VitalSource Bookshelf offers discounted e-textbooks. You can rent the e-textbook for a certain number of days.and also allows you to download your entire eTextbook to your device so you can study without internet access. You can also buy the e-textbook and download it on one device to keep it forever. They claim to have the world's largest catalog of digital textbooks

The City University of New York (CUNY) has a page, Textbook Savings,  that lays out many options.