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Library - Prescribed Textbooks: Student e-textbook model

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eTextbook Rentals

The ability to rent e-textbooks provides students with an easy and affordable way to get access to their study materials. You can take notes and highlights just like in a regular textbook and reference those annotations later when you study for exams. The following vendors supply textbooks for rental on a monthly or annual basis.

VitalSource

Students can shop or rent over one million titles, books can be accessed through an app or browser.

Subjects - Business & Economics, Education, Mathematics, Medical, Psychology, Science


Perlego

Perlego is a digital online library focusing on the delivery of academic, professional and non-fiction eBooks. It is a subscription-based service that offers users unlimited access to these texts for the duration of their subscription.

Subjects - Business & Economics, Education, Mathematics, Medical, Psychology, Science, Law, Design, Social Sciences


BibliU

BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from e-textbooks to courseware.

Subjects - Multidisciplinary

 

eTextbook Rentals

Educess

A South African based business that offers affordable access to textbooks. It has a lot of titles for Marketing and Business Management.

Subjects - Business & Economics, Law, Management


Snapplify

An African eBook aggregator and distributor, with an eBook offering of 240 000 titles from approximately 250 publishers. They offer both print and eBooks.

Subjects - Afrikaans, IsiZulu, Literature, Business & Economics, Education


Cengage

Offers online learning solutions and courseware by discipline.

Subjects - Business, Management & Economics, Mathematics, Science & Engineering, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Computing, Education

 

Sage Course Textbooks

Subjects - Accounting, HR, Management