Selling textbooks online?

[Rob]

sell em to your friends, thats what i do.

Wow, that's helpful. Does it come as easily to you as it seems?

[rwh11385]

For those users on it, facebook.

Join groups and some allow you to message all the members......send out feelers for your books, BINGO BANGO! You sold your books. (I used to buy/sell sports tickets, excellent)

[KenC]

For those users on it, facebook.

Join groups and some allow you to message all the members......send out feelers for your books, BINGO BANGO! You sold your books. (I used to buy/sell sports tickets, excellent)

Good call.... although it's been about a year since I've purchased any text book. Reserve room at the library >>> paying for books.

[Ryan Stewart]

I have used some of the reserved books here but all too often my courses require me to have the text in hand. Didnt buy books for Physics and Astronomy, worked great.

[bmwannabe]

sell em to your friends, thats what i do.

Wow, that's helpful. Does it come as easily to you as it seems?

Pretty common for me. Find someone who doesnt want to spend the time it takes to go to the bookstore, overcharge em, avoid shipping charges.

[KenC]

sell em to your friends, thats what i do.

Wow, that's helpful. Does it come as easily to you as it seems?

Pretty common for me. Find someone who doesnt want to spend the time it takes to go to the bookstore, overcharge em, avoid shipping charges.

:rofl: :rofl:

[mph]

I've been buying all my books off Amazon.com. They're way the fuck cheaper than at my schools bookstore.

I have yet to sell any though. All the local used book stores rape you and give you like $10 per book. Its pretty gay.

[nando]

I got my econ book on amazon.com.. $15 used vs $68 used at school, and the one I got on amazon looks like it's about 10 years newer. college book stores are a fucking ripoff!

[KenC]

college book stores are a fucking ripoff!

On used books, yes, very much so. However, most college bookstores are actually non-profit. That is, they only mark up the books enough to break even. Publishers are the ones ripping off US students. The funny thing is the publisher will sell the same exact book in Europe for about 60% of what they sell it to US stores for. Why you may ask? Simply because European students will not purchase the books for the prices we pay. No, you can't buy new books over-seas and have them shipped here - the publishers caught onto this a few years back and will no longer sell their books to distributers who ship accross the pond.

[bmwannabe]

To add to the problem, the publishers change a couple sentences in the book and therefore, make the book a "newer addition" without really altering the content of the text. It renders the last book "obsolete", making the students buy the newer editions.

Ill tell ya, those publishers have to be swimming in money. Aint America great! Seriously, they found a way to make money, and did it, more power to em!

[Charlie]

college book stores are a fucking ripoff!

On used books, yes, very much so. However, most college bookstores are actually non-profit. That is, they only mark up the books enough to break even. Publishers are the ones ripping off US students. The funny thing is the publisher will sell the same exact book in Europe for about 60% of what they sell it to US stores for. Why you may ask? Simply because European students will not purchase the books for the prices we pay. No, you can't buy new books over-seas and have them shipped here - the publishers caught onto this a few years back and will no longer sell their books to distributers who ship accross the pond.

My girlfriend's brother works as a sales manager for one of the major US textbook companies.

The next time I see him, I am going to stab him in the eye.

-Charlie

[Ryan Stewart]

The worst is:

Who here has had a class that requires a barrage of books that are written or edited by none other than the professor teaching the class?

I had one class that required 3 "books" to the tune of $130. I say books loosely because they were just unbound printer paper with 3 holes punched. You then had to buy a 3-ring binder to hold them.

The next time I see him, I am going to stab him in the eye.

Stab him in the other eye for me. It wouldnt be so bad if they didnt keep changing the books all the time. Especially in classes that teaches material that doesnt change, like managerial accounting. I dont need to spend another $300 to see people in 90s clothing instead of 80s clothing.

[Charlie]

Who here has had a class that requires a barrage of books that are written or edited by none other than the professor teaching the class?

Welcome to being a history major.

It's either their book, or their friends book, both usualy equally awful.

-Charlie

[KenC]

I dont need to spend another $300 to see people in 90s clothing instead of 80s clothing.

HAHAHAHA


But seriously, I wouldn't blame the professors too much (other than the ones using their own 'books') because if you're teaching a class with 2-300 students and you need to have a text book readily available to buy for all of them, you're going to have to make the bookstore order the newest version because it's the only one that the publisher is currently printing. Unless the professors and the bookstore plan months and months ahead, there is no way that they'll be able to get a barage of used books for the students.

Once again, fuck the publishers.

[Ryan Stewart]

Yeah, I know that. Its just frustrating when you compare the 4th edition to the 5th edition and its 99.9% the same thing. It wouldnt be hard to most classes to ignore the 3 words that have changed.