Don't Pay Retail for Text Books

The average college student is paying between $500 to $900 per semester for books.

By doing a little sleuthing, we found savings as great as 87% on books needed for this semester. Before your start your search, get as much information about your text book as possible, including: Complete title, Author, Publisher, Edition Number, Year Published and ISBN number. Here are the places we searched: Buy used from the university bookstore and save 25%. We buy all the books at the bookstore (used whenever possible) - several weeks before classes start - then we start searching on-line using actual ISBN numbers on the books we have in hand. These books will be returned if and when we find better prices.

CollegeBooksDirect.com 25% – 40%

Ebay.com  We've saved between 30% and 90% on text books for our kids

Half.com Another great place to save on text books.

Amazon.com  We've found great deals on text books here too!

CheapestTextBooks.com This site searches all of the other sites and helps you find the best deals around. It's great to get an idea of where the best prices are.

Chegg.com   If you don't plan on keeping your text books for a particular class, you can rent them for about 1/3 the cost of buying them

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