Where did you buy textbook for pre-requisite courses?

9livesRN, BSN, RN · Dec 31, 2008

I bought ALL my books from Amazon.com and it will give you the prices for new and used!

i always bought used, and found all my books to be cheaper there than other discount online bookstore!

i like their shipping and the way that they work with their 3rd party sellers!

plus you start getting promotions, coupons, and even free 2 day shiping when you buy from them for a while

just as an example

ALL my pharmacology, fundamentals, dosage, and reference books were costing 700 bucks at school

i found all of them online (study guides being brand new) for 225 tax and shipping incluided!

and i have already scheduled with a friend that i would sell it after i use for the same price, as long as she does the same thing and we can "pass it forward"

i started this pass it forward thing where we buy books, and sell them for the same price we paid, so then who buys repeat the process! (it is kinda silly) but it helps along the way, and for short budget students it is the best way out...

there are about 6 of us doing it now!

bluemalibu · Dec 31, 2008

I bought several from Alibris. $175 dollar texts were $30, $46 study manuals were $5.

saved777 · Dec 31, 2008

Ecampus seemed cheaper then Amazon, but maybe depending on the book. The school bookstore seems always 20% higher then online. I ordered 3 used books for 50% cheaper, and they look brand new, no writing or torn sheets in them.

Ike Arumba · Dec 31, 2008

I bought my textbooks through Amazon.com this semester only because they were the cheapest through there. I usually use a price finding website like cheapesttextbooks.com or dealoz.com and type in the isbn number of the book and find which website is selling them for the cheapest. It usually turns out to be amazon.com, but not always. Like a previous poster said, it usually depends on the book.

msdeannah · Dec 31, 2008

I rented from Chegg.com I think my chem lab and text book together were 70.00. I just returned them, it worked out great.

My A&P book I purchased from campus as I want to keep that one.

9livesRN, BSN, RN · Dec 31, 2008

i rented the micro book from chegg

kalley · Dec 31, 2008

So far I have bought all of my books from Amazon and Ebay, but I will use whoever I find the best deal from. I price compare every couple of days until I can find a price I can live with.

greenland · Dec 31, 2008

I bought my textbooks through Amazon.com this semester only because they were the cheapest through there. I usually use a price finding website like cheapesttextbooks.com or dealoz.com and type in the isbn number of the book and find which website is selling them for the cheapest. It usually turns out to be amazon.com, but not always. Like a previous poster said, it usually depends on the book.

Thanks. Is it conveient to sell those books back to the Amazon after you finish your class?

bluemalibu · Dec 31, 2008

Thanks. Is it conveient to sell those books back to the Amazon after you finish your class?

I've found it easiest to just post an ad on Craigslist and put up a couple of notes on the bulletin boards on the Math building.

modelmama07 · Dec 31, 2008

Go to dealoz.com and they give you the lowest price available for books from numerous websites, most of the time Amazon is not even the best price, either is Albris!! That's where I get all my textbooks. I used to get them from Amazon and now I can't remember the last time I purchased a book from Amazon. Good luck!:wink2:

Sand_Dollar, BSN · Dec 31, 2008

I have bought them from Amazon, eBay and Half.com I sold my bio book via http://www.betterworld.com/ I just gave them the ISBN # and they gave me a shipping label to print out. I loved it. I would consider selling them via Amazon, but I didn't want to have to list and worry about them, I still got about 50% what I paid for off of Half.com, beat the school bookstore by about $13.00.