Try to buy cheap textbooks for school can be frustrating. Where do I go to get my books? I must go to the school bookstore, right? Sure you can, and pay a fortune.
Or, you can buy from a friend or someone who's selling their books for the class you're about to take, and the professor is using the same volume of the book. This is solution will save you shipping fees but be sure it is the same book.
Or, buy an older edition. But watchout for the "textbook racket!" The problem might be that the professor writes a textbook, and every few years a new edition of the textbook is published. When the new edition is published, college bookstores won't sell the older edition. But you can still find used copies of the old editions in used bookstores, online, and from your friends.
Or, go to the library and be the first to get the copy.If you know what books are being used ahead of time, you can beat the rush and get the books out of the library.
Or, save time, money & frustration, and use the free textbook search tool, BookDealFinder.com, to get your cheap school textbooks by comparing pricing & shipping from 20+ sites that have the books in their inventory.