The world of discounted college books is very rare.
In my opinion the best place to get college books is online.
The sites that you can find discount college books include: Amazon Ecampus Booksamillion BetterBooks You might also be interested in book trading.
Unlike finding discount college books, it will be harder to find somebody that wants to trade a book with you.
The trading of books has sprung up tons of sites including: SwapTree Bookmooch Bookins Booktradenow You can get discount college books, but 99% of the time they will be used.
Used books aren't like old socks from your friend.
But they will still serve your purpose to study for six months and then dump them.
Every student knows that getting cheap college books is the key to saving thousands of dollars while in college.
The average student spends more that 25% of his/her tuition on textbooks.
One of the best places is to look in your student commons for discount college books.
Every student that doesn't want to get ripped off by the campus book store will be posting their books there.
Or you might want to post your own ad for trading a book with a fellow student at your college.
The best discount book is one that is free.
I'm sure you realize that, but if you can get your friends to give you a book that they just didn't sell back or are to lazy to, that will be gold.
Also if you have relatives, you could see what classes that they have taken and you might be able to trade books with them.
You could also purchase the book from them probably cheaper than you could get a college textbook on the internet.
One other great source that comes off the top of my head is standing outside the college book store and offering to buy somebody's book for five dollars more that the book store will charge.
Now that you have many ideas for getting cheap college books you should have no problem saving money this semester.
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