School Textbooks Represent a Major Cost for Students
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Textbooks is probably the last thing on a student's mind, but they actually requires significant attention because it's a huge cost. If you are going to school but don't want to blow your budget, check this article out.
Everyone goes to the campus bookstore to buy textbooks but that's the last place you should look because they are almost always the most expensive. If you like to save, stay away.
The bulletin board need the bookstores or in the student center is a great place to find ads from students selling used books. Check them out and you will probably save.
In the past decade or so, independent bookstores have chosen to locate near college campuses. The deals at these stores are generally much better than at the school stores.
Even Amazon has textbooks for sale. Look up your textbook online and you will usually find a good price of either a used or new version of your textbook.
Publishing houses and middlemen, easily located online, are renting books to students for a fraction of the cost of a new or used book.
Save some money and share a book with a classmate. You may even want to take the course in different semesters so you can use the same book. With this approach, you are basically cutting the cost in half.
The campus library will always have at least one copy of your textbook. Most of the time, there will be multiple copies too so just go over there and check one out.
If budget is really tight, you can ask the professor or teaching professionals if they can lend you an extra copy of the textbook for a few months. They won't need the book as much as you do and it will be free.
Since publishers often just tweak a textbook from one year to the next with a few extras in order to present a new volume, instructors are not averse to allowing a student to purchase an older version of the required text. These books sell for much less than the latest version.
Everyone goes to the campus bookstore to buy textbooks but that's the last place you should look because they are almost always the most expensive. If you like to save, stay away.
The bulletin board need the bookstores or in the student center is a great place to find ads from students selling used books. Check them out and you will probably save.
In the past decade or so, independent bookstores have chosen to locate near college campuses. The deals at these stores are generally much better than at the school stores.
Even Amazon has textbooks for sale. Look up your textbook online and you will usually find a good price of either a used or new version of your textbook.
Publishing houses and middlemen, easily located online, are renting books to students for a fraction of the cost of a new or used book.
Save some money and share a book with a classmate. You may even want to take the course in different semesters so you can use the same book. With this approach, you are basically cutting the cost in half.
The campus library will always have at least one copy of your textbook. Most of the time, there will be multiple copies too so just go over there and check one out.
If budget is really tight, you can ask the professor or teaching professionals if they can lend you an extra copy of the textbook for a few months. They won't need the book as much as you do and it will be free.
Since publishers often just tweak a textbook from one year to the next with a few extras in order to present a new volume, instructors are not averse to allowing a student to purchase an older version of the required text. These books sell for much less than the latest version.
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