Amazon, the online purveyor of everything to everyone, is now making cash-strapped medical students happy with a new option to rent textbooks via the Kindle reader. You can select a rental period of anywhere between 30 and 360 days and the cost will be calculated accordingly. Any annotations you make within the Kindle will remain with you once the rental period expires and they’ll appear within the textbook if you rent it again. There’s still a lot of books than need to be made available through rental, but we’re glad to see a new paradigm emerging that allows for substantial savings for students without them having to deal with reselling their books.
More info from Amazon…
Press release: Students Can Now Save Up To 80% with Kindle Textbook Rental …