If you find your textbooks cost as much as a college class, you do have options.
My kids used a variety of eBay sites to track down college textbooks, but even more options exist now.
New books can often exceed $200 per book, but savvy students share, get books on disk, read them online and rent them.
Here’s a link to Barnes & Noble’s site to rent. Here’s a Barnes & Noble link to access etextbooks.
Here’s a link to a story by CBS reporter Jim Donovan in Philadelphia that offers additional suggestions and sites for cheap textbooks.
Pam Parker is the mom of three and stepmom of three — four are college graduates with one more still in school. She is the editor of Lake Erie LifeStyle, Her Timesand House to Home at the Erie Times-News in Erie, Pa.
I use the search engine BigWord.com which compiles the best prices from all the text book sites. I’ve saved hundreds of dollars for my college students. Now some are rentals or used but so far all have been in excellent shape and rentals are easy to return in prepaid/addressed envelopes.
Check first on a textbook price comparison website to make sure what option and merchant is cheapest. Sometimes a used textbook can be cheaper than a rental or e-book. Remember to include shipping price in your consideration !!!
http://thecheaptextbook.com
An outstanding share! I’ve just forwarded this onto a colleague who was doing a little homework on this. And he in fact bought me breakfast simply because I found it for him… lol. So let me reword this…. Thanks for the meal!! But yeah, thanx for spending time to talk about this topic here on your web site.