Comments on: How to Find Cheap Textbooks

on 6/8/2008 Do Ebay. I got a $250 text book for $2.25 with free shipping. It was awesome. Also one thing that saves huge is if they want the 5th edition, get the 4th. They are almost always exact, and if not it's so close it won't make a difference. Older versions really do cost a lot less.

on 11/11/2007 This is article is exactly right. You have to search around before buying your textbooks. The great thing is with the Internet this is easy. There are book price comparison search engines designed exactly for this purpose. The one I use regularly to get discount textbooks is SmartBookFinder.com. They search and compare prices at all the major on-line bookstores. They also have a feature that I use that allows me to find books I can get 'fast' or within 1-7 Days. My last word of advice is buy used if you can.

on 11/10/2007 The best advice I can give on this is that there are LARGE price differences among on-line bookstores. Thus, using a book price comparison search engine is the way to go. They will find you which bookstore has the lowest price. The one I use is SmartBookFinder.com: http://www.smartbookfinder.com. Its the best book price comparison engine I know of. Last time I used a comparison engine in college I saved tons on my books.

on 11/6/2007 I got so frustrated with the bookstore. They did not buy back all my books and they gave me really low prices on the others. I liked www.jitterbook.com. They accepted most of my books and the pricing can't be beat! Free shipping too!

on 6/17/2007 Always remember to check the classified boards around campus, usually other students have books and even supplies listed at a great discount.
The best advise I every got was to go to half.com
It's a part of ebay and it is absolutely amazing how much of a discount you can get. You can search by title or author, but for text books it is so much easier to got to your campus bookstore and find all the books you need, then turn them over and look at the barcode on the back. Write down the USB code for each book and search for them that way on half.com
It will save you from guessing which edition you need or God only knows what else.
This site has saved me so much time and money, I hope it helps others as much as it has helped me!

on 3/27/2007 Of course there is always the one of oldest textbook resources http://www.directtextbook.com

on 3/27/2007 Of course there is one of the oldest resources on the internet for textbook info http://www.directtextbook.com

on 3/16/2007 If you're buying from a particular campus (and if you're buying textbooks, you probably are), check out http://www.theHappyZork.com .

It's a free service that lets you buy and sell textbooks directly with other students on your campus, so you get used textbook prices without having to wait weeks for Amazon to deliver.

on 3/1/2007 I found a great site that saved me $246 bucks last quarter. http://www.textbookace.com

on 2/23/2007 Try a price comparison engine when you buy. One looks very simple, smart, easy to use; in one search you get several deals from all big bookstores. Try books99 at
http://www.books99.com
THis semester I saved 150 bucks on textbooks.

on 2/21/2007 Online book operation could save you money Online shopping site of the week: Abellabooks.com (www.abellabooks.com).
With textbook costs soaring, Abellabooks.com is a serious money-saver. The site, established in 1998, is a small family-run book operation out of Salt Lake City. They offer a wide array of books for students in preschool through medical school, in addition to novels and reference material.
Books are listed with a condition (most often: "No interior writing or highlighting. May have slight shelfwear."), as well as a description of the book. No photos here, but how often do you buy a textbook based on the cover art?
You can browse by category — a two-page list includes groupings like Insurance Textbooks, Child Development Textbooks and Reference Guides — or search by title or author. If you can't find what you want online, you can submit a form for an offline search and Abellabooks will locate what you want.
In addition to filling any textbook needs, we think it's a great place for book-club books and college test prep guides (with study prep for AP tests, ACTs and SATs). http://www.abellabooks.com

on 2/19/2007 First off, you will always be able to find savings online, particularly with used copies of your books. There are a bunch of great online bookstores to check out, so your best bet is to use a price comparison search engine like Textbook411.com (my favorite) It instantly finds you the cheapest copy of whatever book you are looking for. Saves time and a lot of money! Its the way to go for textbook shopping. http://www.textbook411.com

on 1/3/2007 very helpful

on 11/22/2005 There are numerous sites online where you can search for textbooks. Even if your searches are less than satisfactory, often the site will return the book's ISBN. Just plug the number into Google and, if anyone is offering it online, you'll find it. Such searches have saved me a fortune.

Check out http://www.cheapesttextbooks.com/ where you can search not only by author and title but by keywords and ISBN.

Now go do your homework!

on 11/22/2005 The key here is finding out, as fast as possible, what courses you're taking the next term and finding out what books they'll require. Sometimes, a fellow student will be selling that book at a greatly reduced price, but don't count on it. The best thing to do is to set up accounts on Amazon.com and eBay and do a quick search there. Failing that, hit your campus bookstore as soon as they start selling textbooks for the new term and grab a used copy. Failing that too, you're pretty much out of luck. Shell out your hard-earned cash for a $100 behemoth of a text.