As you know, college students – and their parents – are stretched thin these days. Tuition prices continue to rise, even as the economic recession has left more and more families with less savings stacked away for their kids’ education.
The good news is that there are options out there to help ease the burden of some costs associated with college. One of these options is the growing trend of textbook rental. Cengage Learning, the country’s second largest textbook publisher, recently launched CengageBrain.com, a website with more than 1,200 Cengage Learning titles for rent – at up to 70 percent less than the suggested retail price. CengageBrain.com also offers e-textbooks, individual e-chapters, and audio books, as well as homework and study tools.
The rental process through CengageBrain.com is simple and convenient for students. When renting a textbook, students get immediate access to the first chapter of the book in e-book format and a choice of shipping options. Once the rental term is complete, students can either choose to print a return label from CengageBrain.com and ship the textbook back, or purchase the title.
CenageBrain.com is not only for college students…there are plenty of books and study guides geared towards any age. CengageBrain.com is one lucky reader a $150 gift code for your next purchase or rental!
To enter to win (each counts as a separate entry, so leave a separate comment!)
1. Leave a comment letting me how you are savings for your child’s education and if you think a service like CengageBrain.com would be useful in helping you do so.
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This giveaway will remain open until August 23 at 12:00pm EST at which time I will pick a winner using random.org and notify the winner by email
Good luck!
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unfortunately with the economy right now we aren’t saving
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This would be very useful and we haven’t started saving yet
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At the moment since my husband has been without a job, we aren’t saving…unfortunately
With any coupons/bargains and a giveaway from CengageBrain….these are all help in saving with our kids education bills. I look forward to them being old enough to write essays and try and win scholarship money that will help pay the bills even more! We take one day at a time and have their education at the top of the priority list – so sacrificing something in another “want” area is no big deal know that what we NEED is for our kids to succeed!
Both of my children either decided not to go to college or started later in life, so the few savings I had for that had already been used for other things. Now she is using grants and student loans.
Unfortunately, I’m not able to save for her college. She is paying her own way. This would be a great help towards her English degree.
I am in college now. I live at home and work part-time.
All spare change gets thrown into a jar. It adds up.
I’m subscribed!
Not really saving but just taking it as it comes.
Will be a freshmen.
Books aren’t cheap.
when I start working, I will set aside at least $50 each week in an account for my kid’s college.. I can’t believe college is so expensive and the books are so pricey.
this would be useful because we haven’t started saving yet
We use upromise & that is all. This would be a great way to save on the outrageous costs of books.
It has been difficult saving for college, I think this sounds like it could be helpful.
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I have a cd for my son (he is only 3) so I will just keep adding to it and flipping it each time it is up. I also do the Upromise thing. After I am through with going to school to be a RN I will be able to add a lot more money to his college fund. If I win this, it is for books for me for school.
No kids yet–we’re paying off my husband’s undergrad first! I’m getting a Master’s in Nursing free from my employer, I just have to give them 4 years of my life in exchange!
Our daughter is 9 months old, so we haven’t gotten started on her college savings plan yet.
I subscribe to your e-mails.
I follow you on Twitter and I retweeted the message.
We save little bits when we can. Books are expensive, so this definitely helps.
Cengage Brain is a great site, and helps a lot, but with the economy now it is very hard to save.
I am actually saving for my own education, and this is awesome! Following, although I don’t tweet!
I try to put a little each paycheck away
I am an email subscriber
I am an email subscriber!!
We use a 529 plan. CengageBrain.com sounds great!
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My daughters are both in college right now. When they were younger, we opened a savings account for them. Books are really expensive so anyway to save on them is a blessing.
I’m an email subscriber.
I have some stock that I bought to help with DS’s college, and a few savings bonds, but lately I can’t add anything to it. I do use upromise. We’re just trying to keep our heads above water.
Please enter me – I’m skullaria at gmail dot com
We set aside a certain percentage of our paychecks every month and yes I think they would be helpful
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We are not able to save now. My husband was laid off. I think services such as this would help parents save because textbooks are very expensive.
We can’t save at this time but we did sign up for Upromise in hopes that it would help. I do think this service would be a huge help to those in school and their parents.
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we are using the prepaid program here in florida to prepare for our children’s college, this does sound like a service that we could use
i am a subscriber
i tweeted:
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We’re putting aside money in our savings for my toddler’s education and we use Upromise to help as well!
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