{"id":1976,"date":"2010-04-27T08:06:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T08:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/04\/27\/the-delta-state-university-jimmy-r-williams-bookstore-announces-rent-a-text-program\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:58","slug":"the-delta-state-university-jimmy-r-williams-bookstore-announces-rent-a-text-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/04\/the-delta-state-university-jimmy-r-williams-bookstore-announces-rent-a-text-program\/","title":{"rendered":"The Delta State University Jimmy R. Williams Bookstore announces Rent-A-Text Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Campus bookstore rental program will launch fall 2010 and offer upwards of 50 percent savings<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><br \/>Delta State University today announced it will begin offering textbook rental services at the Jimmy R. Williams University Bookstore this fall. Rent-A-Text will offer students a rental option on textbooks &ndash; savings that represent, on average, 50 percent off the price of new textbooks.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><br \/>&ldquo;We are eager to launch Rent-A-Text because we are committed to providing students with affordable textbook choices,&rdquo; said Greg Redlin, Vice President for Finance and Administration.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><br \/>Delta State University&rsquo;s textbook rental program will:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Be available to students in store and online with in store pick up<\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Allow students to chose a preferred form of payment, including financial aid and campus cards&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Allow students the freedom to highlight and take notes all within the normal wear and tear associated with coursework<\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Give students the choice to&nbsp; buy their textbook at the end of the term if they want to keep the book<\/font><\/p>\n<p>    <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><br \/>    <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Rent-A-Text will be offered through Delta State&rsquo;s ongoing partnership with Follett Higher Education Group.&nbsp; The program is based on Follett&rsquo;s comprehensive pilot program that saved students nearly $2 million on their course materials in just one semester at seven schools. More than&nbsp;90 percent of students surveyed who rented textbooks expressed&nbsp;satisfaction with the pilot program.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><br \/>&ldquo;We have been at the forefront of cost-savings programs for more than a century,&rdquo; said Thomas A. Christopher, President of Follett Higher Education Group. &ldquo;Helping to reduce the costs of higher education is part of our mission and we look forward to working with Delta State University to deliver substantial textbook savings to students.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><br \/>Follett&rsquo;s Rent-A-Text is expected to reach more than 400 campuses nationwide for the 2010 academic year. For more information, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rent-a-text.com\">www.rent-a-text.com<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rentatext\">www.facebook.com\/rentatext<\/a>.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus bookstore rental program will launch fall 2010 and offer upwards of 50 percent savings Delta State University today announced it will begin offering textbook rental services at the Jimmy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38625,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/38625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}