Getting Textbooks For Less

By Casey Riley

You really need to check out this article if you are serious about saving money in college. Here are several ways you can save on your college textbook cost without your grades suffering.

Most colleges or technical schools have a bookstore, but these stores are probably the most expensive places to purchase textbooks. Sometimes they have used textbooks that they sell at a discount, so don't overlook them completely.

Also, bulletin boards near these stores sometimes have used books posted from students and there are always some serious bargains.

Venture out a bit to the independent book stores and you may find the best bargain for your textbooks. The store owners are usually very friend so just ask them for advice.

The Internet is putting pressure on prices in every industry and the textbooks are no different. Search for your textbooks online and you will find them at a discount.

Instead of searching for the title of your text book, search for textbook rental companies. There are publishing houses and middlemen online that do nothing but rent textbooks to students.

Save some money and share a book with a classmate. You may even want to take the course in different semesters so you can use the same book. With this approach, you are basically cutting the cost in half.

Especially if your professor wrote the textbook he's using, you can bet that the campus library will have at least one copy of it for you to borrow. Why pay for it when you can get it for free?

If you enter the field late and cannot seem to find your textbook at a price you can afford, instructors sometimes have extra copies that are given to them by the publishing house. If you ask, instructors often will loan you the extra copy.

The older editions of a textbook are definitely much cheaper and they are usually fairly similar. To find out, just ask the professor about the difference to see if you can just use the old one.

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