More Textbook Tips (business & other students)

Calmomofthree
Sun, 11 Aug 2013 20:02:37 +0000

Almost every freshman has to take English 1010 which uses the Everyday Writer textbook 5th edition… List price is $72.00…Amazon currently sells it new for $48 new and you can rent it for $26 from skyo.com with no shipping charges either way and they allow you to do some highlighting and note taking in the book. I chose to buy it since I thought it is a good book to have as a reference, but renting would have been great option as well.

Also, a lot of kids have to take Psychology 1000… which uses Psychology by Myers 10th edition… Book is ridiculously expensive to buy $187, and it is of not much use to keep if you are not a psychology major. I rented it on bookrenter.com for $36 til Dec 20…free shipping both ways… Also noticed that the renting prices varied a lot by company, so check multiple places

The Econ 1010 textbook (Principles Micro.) I chose to buy new from Amazon ($170) with no sales tax when shipped to LA since I wanted to make sure that I had the access card, and rental prices were very high. Also, looks like as if this book seems to have a good resale value…so will take my chance to resell it myself after she is done.

The Tides Class textbook " Understanding Michael Porter" can easily be found used on the web for a few bucks

I held off on purchasing the foreign language text book for my daughter on the web since I was worried that it would be a hassle to return it if she got moved into a higher/lower class than initially assigned…so will need to buy that one from Tulane bookstore…

On a final note, if you want to save a few bucks and buy books on-line, get going on it since it may take 7-10 business days to get there (unless it’s Amazon of course).