By Susan Seliger
The average college student spends an average of $500 per semester — $1,000 per year for those who couldn’t afford the math textbook — on college textbooks. And according to green math, that adds up to about a tree per year per student lost in creating those texts.
Why buy when you can rent???
Go to Chegg.com to see how you can rent new textbooks at half the cost. They pay for the shipping. Or you can download saving even more. Bonus– they plant a tree for every text you rent.
To find out more on this topic, go to a great post by Julia Pergolini at RiverWired:
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October 28, 2008 at 11:13 pm
catherine
Why not buy Used and resell instead?? Much cheaper than that website, plus you save the energy that would be used for shipping. It’s even more economical if you cut out the middle man (ie the bookstore) and buy/sell directly with other students, like through Craigslist or Facebook. Anyone who spends $500 a semester on books doesn’t know what they’re doing, or just really loves shiny new text books.