Buying textbooks are very expensive, heavy, and instantly useless after finals. If you are a student in the US then Amazon’s new Kindle Textbook Rental service could help you save money by renting textbooks instead of buying them.

Kindle Textbook Rental is a flexible and affordable way to read textbooks. You can rent for the minimum length, typically 30 days, and save up to 80% off the print list price. If you find you need your textbook longer, you can extend your rental by as little as 1 day as many times as you want and just pay for the added days.

Features of Kindle Textbook Rental:

• Great savings: Save up to 80% off the list price of the print textbook
• Pay only for the time you need: Choose a rental length between 30 and 360 days and pay only for the exact time you need a book. Extend your rental for as little as one day or convert to purchase
• Rent once, read everywhere: You can read rented textbooks on the Kindle e-reader and Kindle apps on PC, Mac, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Android platforms.
• Keep your annotations: Access your notes and highlights anytime, even after the rental expires, at kindle.amazon.com

How to Rent Kindle Textbooks from Amazon

Step 1: Download one of our free Kindle reading apps for your PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android device, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry, or Kindle – wherever you’d like to read your textbook.

Step 2: Search for your textbook in the Textbooks Store or from the search bar. If a Kindle edition is available for rent, you’ll see an option in the Formats section on the textbook page. Select the same option.

Step 3 : On the Kindle textbook page select your rental end date. Kindle textbooks can typically be rented for any length between 30 to 360 days – you pay only for the time you need and can extend or buy anytime.

Step 4: Click on “Rent now with 1-click” button to place your rental order.

So go head and rent and read textbooks with Kindle e-reader or Kindle apps on PC, Mac, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone