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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.

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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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