Buy Used Textbooks And Stick It To The Bookstore!
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Used textbooks, nobody likes the word textbooks, nobody! If you are attending any college or university, you inevitably have to buy textbooks for each of your classes. Unfortunately, textbooks are one of the biggest expenses for students today and it doesn’t look they are getting any relief from the campus bookstore any time soon! In fact, the bookstore on my local campus continues to raise textbook prices upward 3% each year. That’s insane!!
With textbooks being such a huge chunk of your school expenses each year, it is vital for a student to shop around and find the best deal they can on used textbooks. There are lots of resources that can be found online to help students locate and secure a cheaper textbook than buying direct from the campus bookstore. Besides that, you are sticking it to the bookstore, which in my opinion, is trying to take students for all they are worth.
These resources like half.com or Amazon allow students to post their books for students all over the country to purchase. This method is good as long as your book sells and you are willing to ship the book. For the buyer, this is good as well, except if it is the second week into the semester and they have to wait another week for the book to show up. All in all, both students get what they want and everyone is happy that they didn’t have to purchase their used textbooks from the bookstore.
If you are like most students, you a price sensitive when purchasing your textbooks, even if you purchase them used. Take a stand and only buy used! It saves you money and in essence, saves the planet since we don’t have to cut down any trees to print more.
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