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Where to Buy and Sell Textbooks
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College Bookstores are the enemy. High prices, long lines, and a horrible buy back program are the biggest complaints.
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
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
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.
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