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As college text prices soar, students get a rental option

Boston Globe

July 26, 2010

In an effort to curb escalating book prices amid sky-high college costs, bookstores at more than a dozen campuses across the state and hundreds more around the country will begin renting textbooks at about half the cost of buying them.

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