Used textbooks are a cheaper alternative to new textbooks and are in high demand by most students who shop at their local college booksellers. Used textbooks are also sold on a national and even global scale through online merchant and auction websites which allow shoppers to search many major new and used book sellers at a time for specific titles.
Used textbooks are 25% off the price of new, but they may contain notes or highlighting and could show wear. Used textbooks generally sell out quickly; often getting these low priced books is quite an ordeal for the inexperienced college student. Used textbooks are marked with a “USED” sticker and they will usually be gone after the mad rush of the first day that the book lists are issued by the professors, especially if the original cost of the book is high, like in the science fields, or if a new edition of the text book has not come out that year. So shop early to save the most money.
Used textbooks are the core of every college and university bookstore operation in both buying back the books at the end of the semester and reselling them at a profit the following term. Prices for used textbooks are...