Where Are The Best Deals On College Textbooks? Generally, Amazon

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<p>“What they found was that the site that had the consistently best prices was Amazon. At any given time, a different site might have a slightly lower price, but Amazon’s prices were the best consistently over time. Barnes & Noble was consistently the highest, which isn’t surprising given that the company owns a huge number of college bookstores.” …</p>

<p><a href=“Where Are The Best Deals On College Textbooks? Generally, Amazon – Consumerist”>http://consumerist.com/2014/08/22/where-are-the-best-deals-on-college-textbooks-generally-amazon/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>More: <a href=“http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/08/where-to-get-the-best-prices-on-used-college-textbooks/index.htm”>http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/08/where-to-get-the-best-prices-on-used-college-textbooks/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I’ve always been confused by this. I’ve been told by so many people that Chegg has the best prices for textbooks, and yet every single time I’ve looked there…they’ve been more expensive than Amazon. </p>

<p>Over the summer, I was a work study for the TRiO Student Support Services program at my school. One of the services that they offer their students is a textbook lending program. Over the summer, we bought new textbooks for this fall semester. I was the one in charge of finding the best prices for all of the different books. There were a couple of sites that had lower prices for a few various books, but Amazon was almost universally lower. We bought around 300 different books. Had we gotten them at Chegg, it would have cost THOUSANDS more than it did on Amazon. </p>

<p>Amazon is where I go for all of my textbooks. It’s gotten to the point that I don’t even really bother looking anywhere else. </p>

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<p>I just use allbookstores.com
I don’t really care where the “average” best place is. I want the best place for that specific book. I will order each from a new place if I have to- I don’t care</p>