Textbooks are expensive especially when you purchase them from your college bookstore. When you turn them in at the end of the semester chances are you do not even get half of what you paid, but there are ways to save.
Research is the best way to save money. You need to know the ISBN number to do that; so go to a college bookstore and write it down, or you might find it online at Directtextbook.com. You can shop around online on sites like ebay.com and halfpricebooks.com. Places like abebooks.com allow you to sell them as well.
Spartanburg Community College helps students like Kathleen Dorsey by allowing her to borrow books from a lending library. "The books range anywhere from $50 to $300." The AIM program is for students who aren't able to buy their own books. It’s a program you won't find just anywhere. "It’s very unique," says the program’s director Leila McKinney. According to McKinney, "They check them out during the semester, and bring them back and we recycle for the next students next term." It saves students like Kathleen - hundreds of dollars. Dorsey says, "For me, I already want to get finished with it, so I can get a job where I can be stable."
Meanwhile, a college textbook publisher said Thursday, it would become the first to rent titles directly to students starting in December. Cengage Learning said its rentals would cost 40% to 70% less than the suggested retail price. Some sites which already rent textbooks to students: chegg.com and bookrenter.com
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