In a nutshell, renting a textbook will cost about half of what it would cost to buy a new book.

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So buy in London, sell in New York and book a 5 cent profit say.

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"When people buy a book from Amazon, they are really giving this whole new world of Internet commerce a try, " says Oppenheimer's Blodget.

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