Best College Textbook Sites
Alternatives to Your College Bookstore
A recent BusinessWeek.com article about Chegg.com, a site that allows students to buy and sell used textbooks and other school-related goods and services, spurred discussion on Digg.com. End result, you can find vastly different prices on multiple textbook sites, it depends on what you’re looking for. Send us your tips, site suggestions and experiences with these sites and we’ll add to the list.
Textbook Crawler / Price Comparison Sites
Ranked in order of mentions:
Abebooks.com
Bigwords.com
AddALL.com
TextbookCompare.com
BookFinder.com
Textbook Buy / Sell / Trade / Classifieds Sites
CollegeMedium.com
Tradeyourtextbook.com
CampusTrade.com
Textbookx.com
DormItem.com
ValoreBooks.com
DirectTextbook.com
Campusbooks.com
Other Textbook Sites
Half.com
Amazon.com
Barnes&Noble.com
Shopzilla.com
Individually Purchasing Textbook Chapters
ichapters.com
Canadian College / University Textbooks
Booksu.com
Tusbe.com
Textbooks From India
75-90% discounts. Identical to the US editions, but with grayscale photos and plain paper.
Firstandsecond.com/
Tips
Get a group together to pay cheap shipping.
Place an index card in the bulletin board of your department for the book you’re looking for.
The Future
Electronic versions of textbooks.
Very nice list, I was just building a page giving an overview of the best sites for textbooks on the web and I didn’t think to put the textbook crawler sites on it. I would recommend Chegg to most people that want to get the best prices on their books and if they don’t plan on returning them.