The days of having to buy your textbooks on campus and
campus only are long gone. May those days rest in peace and be a faint memory.
However, during this day and age textbooks can cost you an arm, leg, and your
grandma. Thankfully, you can save your grandma, arm, and your leg because there
a ways to get those pricey books for much cheaper.
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Here are my 6 tips to help you save on those textbooks:
Shop Online
If you haven’t figured out by now, you can buy your
textbooks online. Yup, it is usually cheaper too. Barnes & Nobles, Amazon,
Half.com, CengageBrain.com, AbeBooks.com, and many other sites actually sell a
wide variety of textbooks. However, when trying to find the best price, you
should put the ISBN in BigWords.com. BigWords.com searches multiple sites that
also scour the internet for coupons and other great money saving deals.
E-books
Did you know getting e-books are a lot cheaper than
paperback books? Yup, all you need is a tablet and you can have all your books
on a light weight tool rather than carrying all of your books to class. Might
as well kill two birds with a single money saving stone.
Rent your books
If you are anything like my sister, you should rent your
textbooks because why is there a need to keep them? You can rent your books
either from your campus bookstore or Chegg.com, eCampus.com, Bookbyte.com, and
many other sites.
Buy an earlier edition
Yes, yes, yes! I highly recommend this. If you have earlier
edition use it because they are basically the same. Your professor may and will
frown upon it, but who needs the few sentences and updated photos anyway; when
you can save a ton of money?
Get an international edition
Purchasing an international edition is pretty much similar
to using an earlier edition. Hey, when money is an issue, you got to do, what you
have to do.
Share with a friend
You were brought up on sharing is caring, right? Why not
share your textbooks with your friend because it can cut the cost of buying
textbooks in half easily. All you have to do is make a plan for who has the
book when and for how long.
Here are the top 6 tips to save money when you are out there
buying textbooks. Always shop around, don’t feel as if you need to head in that
campus bookstore and buy your books at sticker price.
Great tips! My very first semester of college, I purchased brand new textbooks because I liked that they were new and to me, it was part of the college experience. Well when the semester ended and I tried to sell them, I wasn't able to because new versions had come out (of course). So since then, I always got the e-book versions of them because it was SO much cheaper and I didn't have to worry about selling them back. Now I'm an online student so it just makes everything easier as well haha
ReplyDeleteAh, I did that my first semester too. I love paperbooks because I get distracted using e-books. :(
DeleteGreat Tips! Will definitely be using these when I go to college next year :)
ReplyDeleteI am glad I can help. :) I will definitely try and put up some more money saving tips to help you out!
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