<p>I know I spent a fortune my first semester of college on textbooks. And then I got smart and decided to look to other avenues of getting textbooks including starting an online service of my own. Has anyone else felt the pressure of the high cost of textbooks?</p>
<p>yes and then i relieved myself of the pressure buy buying all of my books online. after finals i went to the school bookstore and sold them for more than i paid for them.</p>
<p>i usually make a profit from buying off half.com and then selling them in my campus bookstore…I bought my chem 1 book (zumdahl) for 40 from half.com and sold it for 75 in my campus bookstore</p>
<p>I’ve only bought one book online so far.</p>
<p>Bookstore was selling for $110 used. I bought it off an Amazon seller for $60 new :)</p>
<p>Textbook sites:
<a href=“http://www.bigwords.com/[/url]”>http://www.bigwords.com/</a>
<a href=“http://www.isbn.nu/[/url]”>http://www.isbn.nu/</a>
<a href=“http://www.campusi.com/[/url]”>http://www.campusi.com/</a>
<a href=“Electronics, Cars, Fashion, Collectibles & More | eBay”>Electronics, Cars, Fashion, Collectibles & More | eBay;
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/</a></p>
<p>look on overseas sites such as amazon.co.uk The shipping is only a few bucks (about $8 + $6 per book) and if you buy a few books is small compared to the savings.</p>
<p>You’re gonna see my site on that list of textbook sites soon ;)</p>
<p>Mike’s right, I’ve heard you can get pretty good deals on amazon.co.uk as well.</p>
<p>Does anyone else feel like it’s ridiculous the fact that new editions of textbooks come out so often with very little change in them?</p>
<p>yes, i definitely do. i could have gotten a slightly used textbook for free from a friend, but because I need the cd crap and extra chapter that comes with the new edition I needed to look elsewhere.</p>
<p>how long does it usually take to get shipped to you?</p>
<p>“Does anyone else feel like it’s ridiculous the fact that new editions of textbooks come out so often with very little change in them?”</p>
<p>I absolutely HATE this, I get the worst of luck. It happens to me ALMOST EVERY TIME I take a GE course. It makes me more appreciative how I can use the same textbook for 3-4 quarters for my math and science sequences. And when I buy an internation edition online for half the price, it works out to only about $15 per quarter per sequence. Woot!</p>
<p>Textbooks are one of the biggest scams going in the world of academia with the price of dorm rooms possibly tied or exceeding them. </p>
<p>For people who live in expensive cities like New York or small towns with few alternatives, you got no choice with the dorm rooms (thank God for Montreal’s cheap rents). But everyone can do their part and pirate textbooks.</p>
<p>My advice, is to get together with a couple of students in your classes and buy one textbook between all of you. Take that textbook to a copy centre that is willing to look the other way (usually this is all of them in my experience) and copy the textbook page by page or if you’re lucky, you can get the copy centre guy to do it. </p>
<p>Once you have your copy of the textbook, make as many copies as necessary from that copy and distribute it amongst your classmates. Enterprising students may wish to make excess copies and sell them to others. As for the brand new textbook, return it to the bookstore or sell it to someone you don’t like (usually a snotty rich kid) for as high as you can get it.</p>
<p>Why would you ever not buy your books online? So much cheaper.
Heck, I got all my chem books, including study guide/answer, for the upcoming year for $60, all my math books for ~$65. We’ll see what I’ll need for my writing classes, but hey, can’t be over $50. My 4th class will probably be theater so…</p>
<p>:) Money to be spent on all my textbooks is look to be about $200 max. Let’s say I spend an average of $250-300 a year on textbooks, that’s $1,000 to $1,200 total! People who buy from bookstore new would look at about $100 a BOOK; x8 (for 1 textbook and 1 studyguide/workbook for 4 classes) and that’s $800 a year. OUCH. x4 (for 4 years of college) and $3,200! That $2,000+ is going into the bookstore’s ickle pocket!</p>
<p>I love the internet.</p>
<p>Just a question, for a freshman who buys brand new text books (lets say business major), how much would it cost him total?</p>
<p>at the bookstore, $500-800 is the typical range for all new books. i bought all 5 of my text and lab books used online for about $200 total. just go to the bookstore and get the isbn numbers on each of the books you need, the editions, take a picture of the book with a camera phone or something, and buy the books from amazon or half.</p>
<p>I’m planning on buying all my books online because the campus bookstore prices are ridiculous. the only thing i’m worried about though is dropping classes. what if i buy the books online and then decide to drop the class? i don’t believe the things you buy at places like half.com are returnable. anyone got any advice on this?</p>
<p>bf06bu, ask your campus bookstore if they buy used books. If they do, you can sell it back to them, even if you didn’t buy it there. If all else fails, you can always sell it privately to another student.</p>
<p>Hey, there’s a cheaper way to get the textbooks you need. Instead of buying used books online, you can trade books online! Use your old books (and it’s not limited to college textbooks, you can also trade DVDs and video games) to get the new ones you need. It works because you receive “trade credits” for the items you sell. Then you use those “trade credits” to buy.</p>
<p>The site is <a href=“http://www.swapsimple.com/[/url]”>http://www.swapsimple.com/</a> (This site was actually founded to help college students save money)</p>
<p>SAVE MONEY! =)</p>