Rent Or Buy Textbooks Online To Save Money

Posted by Home Morgage | Personal Finance | Thursday 20 August 2009 9:18 pm

Textbooks are necessary for your educational success, but they are lousy purchases. They cost a lot to buy, lose value quickly, and worth little when you sell them. Instead of buying your textbooks from college campus store this semester, you could try renting them from online bookstores. If you still want to own them, you could also buy them online at a fraction of the cost.
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Where To Rent Textbooks

There are several web sites where you can rent textbooks. For example, Chegg offers textbooks for rent at about 65% to 85% off the retail purchase price. You can select from thousand of textbooks, get them quickly, and ship them back for free. Chegg also offers 30-Day “Any Reason” Guarantee, which gives you:

Full refund for all orders returned within 30 days
Guaranteed delivery date
Guaranteed quality of books

Last but not least, Chegg promises to plant a tree for every book you rent.

Where To Buy Used Textbooks

Instead of renting, you could also buy used textbooks from places like Amazon.com and Bookbyte.com. For example, Bookbyte sells Human Anatomy and Physiology (8th Edition) for $88, which is 55% off the retail price of $196.33. Amazon.com sells the same book for $157.

These are just a few examples and I encourage you to shop around a bit since there are many web sites that sell and rent textbooks online. Textbooks are becoming more and more expensive each year. A full time student could easily spend more than $500 per semester on textbooks. Why not rent or buy online and safe a few hundred dollars?

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