Buying New books from Amazon?

[emde]

What is your experience buying new books from Amazon for nursing school? The bookstore in the nursing school I will attend sells the books extremely expensive. I realized that I can save a lot of money through Amazon. I just want to make sure that any code that I could possibly need will work for me.

Thanks

[RNOrchid]

I love Amazon and I buy pretty much all my books for school from there. I go to a private nursing school so I think even the books are more expensive! Compared to my school's price on new books, I get them for about half price on Amazon and even more discounted if I buy used. I always like to get the exact book that is listed for the class including the edition. I buy them not too far from my class start date so that I'm sure they didn't change the book. I also only get the main book that is needed. I find that my school can list up to 6 books for one class only to find out that the professor only uses the main text book. After I start the class and I know what the professor wants and their style of teaching, I decided whether I need the guides or other supplemental books. This semester I saved a few hundred doing it this way! :)

[Froyoagogo]

The best part about Amazon is that you can actually sell them back your book when you are done "Trade in" and you can get up to $100 in an Amazon gift card and you can use it towards your next book. I did that with all my prereq books but I will probably want to keep a lot of nursing books..