When you need cheap textbooks to buy for college, you have several ways to get them. You can search for the best deals on new textbooks at discounted prices. You can compare used textbooks to new books. You might consider international version textbooks.
What first comes to mind when thinking about cheap textbooks is to buy them used, and that is certainly a great option. But if you are particularly concerned about a book’s condition, you should not ignore the idea of new books altogether.
Buying new textbooks allows you to enjoy the experience of using the book with no distractions from dirty pages, highlighting or other issues that come with used books. Just compare various copies of the textbooks you need, whether new or used, to find the best ones for you. Price is important but sometimes other variables are too.
The used textbook market has exploded in recent years along with the prices of new textbooks. Unless you really must have a new book, then buying textbooks used is a great way to get your books for college without completely breaking your budget.
Search for textbooks using the ISBN for the one recommended for your class and then you can compare other older editions which generally sell for a fraction of the new prices. Or if you have good information about the book, and know what you want, you can search by title or even author.
In addition to older editions of textbooks published in the U.S. market, international versions are sold outside this country. Publishers have made essentially the same books available for other markets at much reduced prices. And although they don’t like the idea of students buying international books here, there doesn’t seem to be much they can do about it as the practice has become quite common.
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