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Nursing Book Bundle

Is anyone else nervous about buying their nursing books on amazon or another site? Our books come in a bund and it would be nice to save some money, however, I am afraid that one might not come with a CD (even though it's new) and some of the books are not even available for me on amazon. Am I the only that feels it's just easier to get them at your bookstore?

Also, do you sell back your books or just keep them all?

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Sometimes I do. I have ordered from the publisher before. We had a LWW package for fundamentals and I created an account on their web-site and they emailed me a great coupon so I ended up getting my schools package from the publisher's for about 50 dollars less and they had a free shipping code too! Otherwises with shipping many of my books actually end up cheaper at our bookstore shockingly enough :)

There are a couple of different ways to save money. It just takes some research.

Rent/borrow/buy used especially if you only need them for one semester. Our book store sells just the cd's if they are needed. Usually they are not needed.

If you find them online and are worried about workbooks or cd's not being the same then try searching for them with the exact ISBN # as the bookstore. Usually (almost always) you can find the same bundles cheaper.

First semester the bookstore wanted $1287 for the books I needed. Got mine for $452 (purchased one cd from the bookstore for $55).

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I really don't think that I can save that much money this time around. Our first semester books are only going to cost around $300. Some of the books that I was looking into online were around $60 a piece. I have no idea how much they will cost after this semester though.

i bought all of my books from amazon.com, all of them were new & in perfect condition. i saved well over $500 with buying 20+ books. of course, i bought way more than actually needed. but just for the books i needed, i saved $150!

I bought my books @ the school's bookstore. Our bundle is what we need for two years of NS and comes with all but one of the books and all the cd's that I need. I did not want to take the chance of not getting my books on time plus I get financial aid and it is just easier to but them on campus!Oh and the book company gave us a coupon for a 10% discount which saved around $70.00.;)

I always buy my books online and I am never nervous with one exception. I needed a pharm book that was running around $60 online and found one for $5 so I was nervous about the condition. Turned out the book was in GREAT condition!

Anyway, I never buy from the bookstore and I have never once needed a CD that came with the book except for the Virtual Clinical Excursions.

If I can find them cheaper online I would do it. That being said, I did buy the bundle from school. I got an $800 book voucher and the books were $749 :o As long as FApays for it I will get them from the school, but if FA is no more I will go for cheaper online.

I am SO glad we rent all of our books! $35/class. Of course I needed a current drug book and lab values book.

I am SO glad we rent all of our books! $35/class. Of course I needed a current drug book and lab values book.

We now have a rental program but it costs nearly as much as it does to buy them.

At my alma mater, we rented our books for $50 a semester. Whatever you needed! I miss those days...

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Well, I just found out that the bundle that I bought was the only thing we will need for the next two years. They will just add one book for the next three semesters so that's not bad. We were also advised not to sell them until after we pass he NCLEX.

The bundle I bought at the bookstore cost less for the 4 books than on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. However, most of the non-bundled books cost about 20% more at the bookstore, so I'll end up saving about $200 by not buying those books at the bookstore. You just have to be aware of shipping costs and taxes... Look for free shipping deals.

Our books come in a bundle as well, but we also get stuff that buying each book individually would not offer, and its actually cheaper this way...first we get both the E-edition and the book itself for the price of 1, and we also get access to the Elsevier websites extra resources....plus the bundle costs 639$ but at this meeting next week we all get a 10% discount card, saving us 65$....and the books (if bought individually, even when buying used from any site really....is still nearly 800$ and we don't get access to Elsevier's website and other extras...

so really take a look at what your getting in the bundle before buying everything outside of it...

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