Noble College Booksellers, the country's largest operator of college and university bookstores, launched a new service that may bring relief to college students—a multichannel textbook rental program. With this new program, students can rent new textbooks from their campus Barnes & Noble bookstore, either online or on-site, for 42.5% of the list price. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers recognizes that the reduction of educational expenses is at the forefront of students' concerns. With their new multichannel textbook rental program, students may be able to save more than 50% of the cost of buying a new textbook.
Encouraged by congress's decision to provide money to stores that have textbook rental programs, Barnes & Noble College Booksellers started to pilot their textbook rental service in three of their 636 campus bookstores in the fall of 2009. With this new launch, twenty-five of its campus stores will now have the rental service. A key in determining which schools will have such programs is finding professors who are willing to support the rentals by using the same texts for multiple semesters. The rental program may have had a small launch, but as it continues to succeed, more campuses will expect to see the initiation of such programs.
Which of these sentences has the most appropriate tone for a persuasive research paper on the implementation of a textbook rental service?
A
"Do you think it is right for college students to be in debt up to their eyeballs, just because the textbook publishers live for the almighty dollar?"
B
"It seems incredulous that students need to pay for textbooks on top of their other college expenses."
C
"At this point, most college students can't stand textbook publishers, but textbook publishers sure love college students—their wallets, that is."
D
"It is completely obvious that the only way to help college students is by starting a textbook rental program in our very own campus store."