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.


• CengageBrain - Formerly iChapters, with options to buy, rent, download, or order chapters of books.


• Barnes & Noble - This bookstore giant usually has fair pricing of textbooks.


• Textbooks.com - Buy and sell textbooks at this site claiming to have the largest selection of used textbooks.

Textbook Rental

• Chegg - The leader in online textbook rental.


• Book Renter - Chegg's biggest competitor.


• CampusBookRentals.com - Named one of the cheapest places to rent textbooks in a recent study.


• CollegeBookRenter.com - A textbook rental provider that ships for free. Also gives you the option of buying.

Digital Textbooks

• CourseSmart - Find your textbook as an eTextbook at a much cheaper price.


• 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.

Classifieds sites

• eBay - Auction site, also see half.com.


• 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.

Facebook Apps

• 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.

Selling Textbooks

Many places will buy books from you. Here are a few we recommend.

• Chegg
• TextbooksRus
• WeBuyTextbooks.com
• eCampus