College Textbook Savings Tips

By Bob Jones


My most important tip is by using the power of the PC and the Web to shed light upon finding the lowest priced textbooks by using a price comparison site. Is textbook rental cheaper than used school textbook costs? Are international edition options cheaper? What about iTextbooks or downloading digital textbooks?

A good college textbook price comparison service will judge the costs from dozens online varsity textbook book sellers and report the least expensive seller for each aquisition type on a single screen. I have used the following sites to price compare school textbooks. Their outputs are dissimilar in that the first site compares the prices and details the most cost-effective source. The second site collects and displays all the prices for you to check. They also have a section devoted to showing buyback quotes to find where to get the top price at buy-back time. Ultimately both sites publish an inventory of current textbook voucher codes. This can save you and extra 5% - 10% on your textbook costs.

Cheap-Textbooks.com Started in 1999, this site pulls school textbook prices from over 50 sites and shows who has got the most cost-effective textbook price (including shipping) for each category; rental, used, new, ibook and world. They actually have an Android App and an iPhone/iPad Web App for costs on portable devices.

CollegeTextbooksCheaper.com A great site if you like to see all of the data. Straightforward, clean, just textbook costs. CollegeTextbooksCheaper.com lists everybody's costs in a single report so you can compare yourself. The report features all formats including rental, used, international edition, digital, new and whatever format the book sellers offer.

Textbook prices change almost every day based mostly on supply and demand. Today's cheapest site may not be the cheapest today so comparison shop for every book you need. Do not overpay. Reward the website with the best prices by giving them your business. Lets inspire the low price sites with our business and help push down college textbook costs.




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