Textbook prices?

I like half.com, or even Amazon.

I had to buy a "package" for my program and it was horrid. I am doing a RN-BSN online and I am renting every book (except the APA manual). I have not spent more that 30 dollars book.

That is not a bad price for all 5..you can rent them on amazon

That's what I thought too. But I just found it so hard to believe that the school actually had the lowest price. Especially when I searched Amazon, AbeBooks, Valore, Ebay etc...

I actually think that is a great price! I paid more to rent books than that one semester.

Side note: $360 for all your school books.... WOWZA was your program nice to you lol. The package at my school was double the amount of books and was roughly $960. And that didnt include 3 books they will require for block 3 next semester that will set me back another $300. But, I used amazon and got all the books for about $700 so I saved money that way. DOes your school mabe use books that have been edited specifically for your program. There is one college near me that has most of the books they sell made specially for that school and they are all cheaper than if you had to by the equivalent for another school. The difference is the chapter are arranged specifically to the order they are taught in class. Which is convenient. Maybe, your program does something similar? It might explain why there are no international editions available.

Try amazon.com, they books are MUCH cheeper than the books stores!

HPRN

I'm with everyone else- that actually sounds like a GREAT price!! In my program, we often buy our texts from upperclassmen for a fraction of the cost, is that an option?? The nice thing about that is some of them will put little sticky notes inside with study tips :) Maybe try amazon student??

I used Cheap Textbooks - Price Compare College Textbooks - Used, New, Rental & eTextbooks I rented texts that I have no desire to keep. The rest I bought used.

I was able to find some e-copies of my text on torrent sites. Yes, it's illegal.

But you know what else should be illegal. Making students pay $1165 for textbooks for a 2 year program.

our books are bought together in a bundle with all of the different online accesses that we need and lots of supplemental resources too.....there is no way to buy them cheaper because if you bought used books then went back and bought the online accesses you'd be spending more money..... sooo it's $1200+ from the publisher or $1500 from the campus bookstore (which most of us will be doing because we don't get out FA/loan refunds until a couple of weeks into the semester :-/ I could really use that extra $250 but don't have the $1200 to pay out of pocket while I wait for that refund to order them from the publisher. *sigh* the first semester is soooo expensive....luckily that is all of the books for the entire program....but yikes getting started is rough