More options for buying college textbooks

The textbook industry must be lucrative, because I know that I spent lots of money on my own books and my scholarships were never enough to pay for the costs of the books needed each semester.

I was fortunate to have an off-campus bookstore that allowed you to purchase books used and then resell them back for a little bit of money to use on my next purchase.  Sometimes I kept my books, but most of them time I resold them.

However, sometimes you have a professor who decides to use a new book that the used bookstores don’t have in stock.  So, what are your options when  you don’t want to shell out $90 or more?

1.  BigWords.com offers one stop shopping and allows you to compare prices at Amazon.com, eCampus.com, Half.com, Barnes&Noble, and Abebooks, textbooks.com, Biblio.com, and much more.  BigWords.com compares prices at all of the leading book sites, then calculates the lowest possible price, taking into account promotions and delivery costs.

2.  Chegg.com allows you to rent books for a semester and then send them back with the postage already paid.  You obviously can’t ruin the book, but there isn’t a penalty for highlighting in the book.

Best of luck in trying to track down the cheaper version of the textbook you need and just think that one day the expense will pay off when you start in your career path.

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