Where to Buy and Sell Textbooks

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.