How to find cheap textbooks online

Bargain hunters have some research ahead of them

As I mentioned in the post on my textbook price comparison yesterday, the Washington Post has a good article on the best places to get cheap textbooks online. It’s a piece by the founder of Cheapism.com.

Read the full article for details and warnings, but here are the main ideas:

The best online sites are Chegg.com, Textbooks.com, eCampus.com and BigWords.com
Pay attention to shipping costs
Try to buy as many books as you can from one site to save on shipping.
If you rent, check out the return deadlines, policies regarding writing and highlighting in the books and polices regarding returns for dropped classes.
For Cheapism.com’s full guide to the best sites, click here.

About the blogger

Alex Friedrich

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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.

Mike

Cheers for that, it was very useful. Please also check http://textbooksandbooks.blogspot.com.au/ Textbooks and Books (T&B)is an online bookshop to sell cheap textbooks and books. You can buy books online there through ebay and PayPal. Cheers.