| College students today face inflated textbook costs | | | | maintained high markups and horrific buy back |
| and numerous releases of essentially the same text. | | | | programs. As an educated consumer you can utilize |
| Mandatory CD-ROMs and online access codes are | | | | the Internet to find the best deal for your |
| undermining the used textbook market. Book | | | | textbooks. |
| publishers have a captive audience as students have | | | | Many companies offer low cost or even free, fast |
| no choice but to purchase the textbooks required by | | | | shipping to ensure your textbook arrives within |
| their university. A new trend in the textbook market | | | | plenty of time of the first due date. Often Internet |
| is the ability to rent textbooks. This significantly | | | | suppliers offer extended return periods in the event |
| lowers the price of a semester worth of textbooks. | | | | you decide to drop a class. |
| Digital textbooks are also becoming common in most | | | | Consider selling your textbook back to many of the |
| universities today. With new hardware such as the | | | | online retailers to really lighten the price. You could |
| Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle this is becoming an | | | | end up receiving more than the price you originally |
| attractive way to present material to students. As | | | | purchased the textbook for if textbook market |
| other medians have dropped in price after digitization | | | | conditions are right. To maximize your investment in |
| it is my hope that textbooks will also see a decrease | | | | textbooks take notes in a separate notebook, as |
| in price. | | | | highlighting and underlining will reduce the market |
| Students often are left with no choice but to add | | | | value of the textbook. |
| the cost of textbooks to their large student loan | | | | Keep all receipts of textbook purchases, as you may |
| balances. College students can save big by shopping | | | | be able to claim a tax deduction. You may even be |
| for textbooks online. Often used textbooks can be | | | | able to use scholarship dollars to purchase the |
| found for individuals studying within a popular | | | | textbooks. It is important to keep proof of the |
| academic discipline. Used textbooks are often a | | | | purchase if you utilize either of these means of |
| fraction of the original retail price. | | | | purchasing. |
| Colleges often structure scheduling policies to | | | | If you utilize some of the tips I have presented |
| maximize the amount of students who will be | | | | above you can significantly reduce the expense |
| required to purchase textbooks from the school | | | | associated with textbooks. |
| bookstore. Universities across the country have long | | | | |