buying textbooks online

[Amby 490]

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone

[dodson01 0]

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone

I have purchased almost all of my son's books online. Some of the websites are: collegetextbooks.com; amazon.com; ecampus.com. I also sell back a majority of his books back to these companies when he is through. I have only had problems with one website and that was taking over 3 months for them to pay me. That was only one bad experience over a 4-year period.

[Gumbolette 58]

Yes.. My husband buys his books online. He gets it within the week. And also, it saves him time, effort, esp money.

[Flames9_RN 358]

half.com is great!! Bought majority of my nursing books on there

[웃 910]

If you can get the International Edition you will save a lot of money! They are the exact same books except with a different cover, only the price is about 50% cheaper. I use Amazon and Ebay

[NickD 202]

Yes.. My husband buys his books online. He gets it within the week. And also, it saves him time, effort, esp money.

When I went to college, the bookstore was a heaven of bargains, Purchased a stack of engineering handbooks, a big fat Pickett slide rule, a Post drawing set, all silver imported from Germany, papers, pencils, everything was a huge bargain. That is ancient history today, a big ripoff, pay two-three times as much today as other places, and use books that are obsolete, but you gotta have them for the course that you can't find anyplace else.

Got a little irritated at my step daughter being suckered into buying MS Office, an academic version with a limited license that renders that program useless after a year or two. Could have gotten the full version much cheaper off the web without that limited license. It's a problem, and well thought out to cream you, you were lucky to find some books. Average cost back then was about four bucks a book, a big fat brand new book.

Did take a couple of courses in computer languages, they don't teach anymore, listen to BS while in class, then told to read a zillion chapters and write a program. Professors are making over $100K per year and don't even show up have the time and enjoying a six week break over Christmas just to go back for a couple of weeks for spring break. In the meantime, my property school tax was gone up 20% this last year, and tuition rates have skyrocketed. What a ripoff. But you gotta have that piece of paper today, they know that, and are taking full advantage of it.