Examiner.com

• College-bound: Preparing you and your child for freshman year
  There’s a lot to think about when your child heads off to college. You walk a parental tightrope, balancing between encouraging independence and wanting to tack a list of dos and don’ts on your kid's dorm room wall.
  
  What are some practical ways to help your child start his first year of college with confidence? ...
  
  5. Plan for some adjustments—Thanksgiving and Christmas break may seem a long way off now. But it’s not too soon to realize that things will be different when your child comes back home. “Students will be accustomed to a different schedule, a different social life, and more freedom to come and go,” explains an online resource from Western Washington University’s Counseling Center. If you can't think about this reality right now, tuck #5 into your back pocket for down the road.

The Seattle Times

• College publishers get into book-rental business
  College students fed up with spending hundreds of dollars to buy textbooks they only use once are getting some new rental options.
  
  And textbook publishers, undercut by sales and rentals of used versions that push them to the sidelines, are hoping they have figured out some new strategies to make money.
  
  Stamford, Conn.-based Cengage Learning on Thursday announced plans to rent titles directly to students for 40 percent to 70 percent off the suggested retail price.
  
  Also Thursday, McGraw-Hill Higher Education announced a partnership with web site Chegg.com - one of numerous Web sites that have popped up selling and renting secondhand books. Under the arrangement, McGraw-Hill will provide new textbooks to Chegg, offering the company a bigger inventory of books to lend out, and McGraw-Hill will get a share of the rental revenue.