Buy and Sell Used Textbooks

As an online student, you may find that many of your books are customized for your school rather than being just a standard text. For example, American InterContinental University ships textbooks to students automatically and most books have the AIU logo. Although many schools have the textbook price built into the tuition cost, you will save money by shopping around for your textbooks. Even if your book is customized for your school, you might find books on a used book source website.


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Ask your professors if previous editions will be acceptable. Sometimes they will post the newest edition as their selected text because the bookstore can't order enough of the previous edition. Sometimes there are very few changes so a previous edition will work fine. International editions are usually identical to the US editions and much cheaper. If you school doesn't already have a website for students to trade textbooks, suggest one.



Keep in mind that your classes might move too quickly to order books from websites where individuals handle selling. If you need the book quickly and price isn't too much of a concern, Barnes and Noble will be better. I haven't really had too many complaints about buying books online. I prefer to pay by PayPal especially because one time I sent a check to a lady and she claimed she never got it. My $50.00 check was either in her hands or lost in the mail. Canceling the check would have cost $30.00 through my bank. She asked me to send another one--- which I did not. She eventually figured out that the check was at her Post Office box rather than at her regular home mailing address. When I finally got the book, it was the wrong edition and smelled heavily of cigarette smoke.