College Textbook Blog

Anyone who has bought college textbooks, knows that they need to find an alternative to the college book store.

Well, look no further than Book Deal Finder, for cheap textbooks.  Publishers insist that book prices have been cheaper in recent years, but most students would tell you something different. One thing students can do is go to the web site www.BookDealFinder.com and search many online book stores at once, finding the best price and buy from the book seller they choose, to lower textbook costs.

Many college professors don’t know the prices of the books they are using to prepare the students. So, the students get stuck with the high cost of many books. Too many texts now come shrinkwrapped with CDs and other extras, driving up the cost. Publishers insist that these extras really help and argue that in some cases the CD is the real text, and the book is simply an accompanying manual. It should be obvious, however, when the book is the text, and in those cases students should not need to buy anything else.

We believe colleges should be required to post the list of required and recommended books long before students need to buy them. That would allow them enough time to shop for the best deals, online or in the college bookstores.

We think the student should tell the professors to review the textbook choices on Book Deal Finder, before they use a classroom book and begin helping the students with lower cost books. Tell us what you think of this idea!