Innovative New Website Makes Textbooks More Affordable by Renting Them

New York, NY, (PRWEB) January 21, 2008 -- With the soaring cost of college tuition and textbook prices reaching an all time high, millions of students are struggling financially to make it through school. Now a revolutionary, new website is easing some of those money woes by making expensive textbooks affordable for everyone! WhyRentBooks.com is giving students the opportunity to rent their books quickly and easily for a fraction of what they would cost to buy.

"Too many students nowadays spend more time concerned with how they're going to afford school rather than how they're going to graduate school" emphasized Garland Shields, President of WhyRentBooks.com. "They already have enough to worry about with all the class-work and studying that's required to get a degree. If we can help ease their financial burden hopefully that will let these students focus on what's really important - good grades."

18 million people are attending college or university in the U.S. but 1/3 of them do not get any kind of financial assistance. On average, students spend at least $900 a year on their textbooks - that's a lot of money to waste on products that will only be used for one semester. To make matters worse, when they sell their items back to the bookstore, they're refunded just a fraction of what it cost to purchase them. WhyRentBooks.com has found a great way to save students hundreds of dollars by renting them textbooks at 30 - 50% of what they'd normally have to pay.

But the benefits don't end there. WhyRentBooks.com has a green-friendly mission. "When students rent from us, what they're actually doing is recycling" says Shields. "Too many students buy books and use them for only one semester, then its left at home on their bookshelf collecting dust. We actually rent the same textbook out a number of times which indirectly, will have a huge impact on the environment by saving trees."

The company also prides itself on having a sleek, user-friendly interface that Shields says makes the online shopping experience simple and easy. With over 3 million titles available the website claims to have any textbook a student may require and, with just a few clicks, it will be delivered directly to their door in a matter of days. The burden of searching for a title in a crowded bookstore then standing in long lines is immediately eliminated.

To make textbooks even more affordable for students, WhyRentBooks.com is giving the students the option of renting out their old textbooks to other students. The students will get most of the profits from the rentals says Shields, and they can make money over and over again on that one textbook.

With all these ingenious ways to save students both time and money, it's no surprise to hear the company motto; "We Work Harder So You Can Be Smarter!" and they certainly stand by it 100%.

ABOUT WHYRENTBOOKS.COM

WhyRentBooks.com is a subsidiary of Shields and Shields, Inc., and is the leading provider of textbook rentals in the United States and Canada, with growing markets in the U.K and the Caribbean. The websites serves students from every college and university in the U.S. and has over 3 million book titles and growing are available.

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