Where and how to find cheap textbooks?

I was advised to check amazon.com, but I don't because then I'd have to pay out of pocket instead of my pell grant..But if I were paying out of pocket, that site might help you..

Maybe you can ask around your school if somebody knows about someone who would like to sell his old books. Or maybe borrow from someone who had the same subject the year before or a few years before.

I have not personally ordered textbooks, but others have said they get them less expensively online. I imagine you can find them on eBay. I would also check Amazon, and Alibris. Alibris is great if you are looking for a hard to find book.

I got my on half.com instead of the school book stores. The prices were much cheaper, and the shipping was always very quick. I think in two years I only had one book I couldn't find and had to get at the school book store.

I ordered all of my textbooks from Amazon.com this semester. Most of them were still expensive, but I saved about $200 by buying from Amazon instead of the school bookstore. One of the things several of my professors recommend is getting older editions of the textbooks. Here in the United States, the publishers come out with new editions of textbooks about every three years. They change very few things between editions, so you can often get by with the older version instead. One of my classmates in biology has the ninth edition of our book instead of the eleventh. She paid $6 for it, while the bookstore wants $209 for the brand new eleventh edition.

If you can't find textbooks that are required from your school that is cheaper. Try to borrow books from your school library. Set a date when to return the book, once you have the book find photocopying store which offers cheaper print per page. If not, ask someone from a higher level than you if they have this textbook required you have to borrow from them or if they want to sell, bid for a lower price that you can afford. If they agreed, then lucky for you, if not then you have still the option. You have to deal with them paying by monthly or weekly installments.

If the books that you need for your class aren't a new edition of the book, you might be able to find it used at the college bookstore, and that will save you some money. However, what might be able to save you even more money would be to check and see if you can find the books on ebay or Amazon. If they are new edition textbooks, the best place that I've found to get the textbooks for a cheaper price is ecampus.com.

normaly some places in my country they have used book shop you can bu there cheaper