Here are places you can buy, sell, rent and exchange textbooks, other than your school's bookstore.
General Online Bookstores
- Amazon - The world's biggest selection of books at low prices.
- BookByte - Buys back and sells new and used College Textbooks.
- eCampus - Discount bookstore saving you 50-90% off.
Classifieds sites
- eBay - Auction site, also see half.com.
- Chegg - Buy/Sell textbooks. Also has Cheap Textbook Rentals.
- DormItem - College Classifieds and Search Engine. Also with RSS feeds!
- Valore Books - A marketplace for buying and selling textbooks.
Price Comparison Sites
- Book Finder - Search engine that finds the best buys on new and used textbooks for sale.
- AddAll - Price comparison agent built to ease online book shopping.
- directtextbook.com - search for your books and see prices from several textbook stores where you can buy your textbooks.
- Big Words - Price comparison search engine.
- CampusBooks - Compare prices on all of your books at once.
- College Smarts - Buy textbooks, sell, trade or swap your used college textbooks.
Facebook Apps
- Facebook Marketplace Book Exchange - This is facebook's official book exchange service.
- Swap Roll Book Exchange - Search your networks or all of Facebook to find someone to make a book exchange with you.
- Campus Book Exchange - Search for books you need, buy, and exchange books in person with others on your campus.
- iChapters textbook search - Finds you the best prices on textbooks from iChapters.
- TextbookX Marketplace - A great way to sell your textbooks right from your facebook profile.
- BooksOnCampus.com - Uses the facebook api to login to the site.
Textbook Rental
- TextbookFlix - Launched by Chegg.com, the service rents out textbooks.
Digital Textbooks
- CafeScribe - Lets you download Textbooks in digital form, so it saves trees. Because of this, this service is about 50% cheaper than your normal College Bookstore.
- Textbook Revoloution - Helps you find Free text versions of Textbooks online.
