Move through Chegg.com. Barnes & Noble is entering the textbook rental arena.

Barnes & Noble is the largest bookstore chain in the country and has been the top selling chain for the past six years. Barnes & Noble sells most of its books through its almost 800 bookstores. However its quickly growing website also offers over one million titles and a new line of campus bookstores called Barnes & Noble College Bookstores operates at 636 colleges and universities.

So obviously Barnes & Noble is a large company. And now in an effort to help students combat the rising cost of university textbooks Barnes & Noble is starting to rent its textbooks.

Students may rent their books from the Barnes & Noble website or from a bookstore. Textbooks are then shipped to a campus bookstore. There are currently 25 campus bookstores participating in the new program including those at Ohio State University the University of South Carolina and the University of Maryland.

Barnes & Noble is offering textbooks at 42.5 percent of their original price. The average student spends $667 per year on textbooks. So if the average student rented all of their books from Barnes & Noble they would only spend $283.48.

That’s a huge savings!

Barnes & Noble isn’t the only online textbook rental company. Other companies include Chegg.com and CampusBookRentals.com

Via SingersRoom.