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<blockquote data-quote="Heresy" data-source="post: 1318022" data-attributes="member: 540683">I only sell books back to the school when I can&#039;t get a decent return online. I bought some philosophy books for this class I took last semester, selling them online would maybe have netted me an extra $5-$10 at most. It wouldn&#039;t be worth the time and effort to list them, package them, and then ship them. Another time I bought a book for $15 (used) for a summer course and sold it back to the school for $13.50. However, the majority of the time, 30% is a great return if they even will buy them back for you.The whole textbook publishing business is a racket. Usually either the professor for the class or a member of the faculty makes you buy a book they are getting royalties off of. Then they purposely come out with a new edition every few years that is altered ever so slightly to justify making the entire class have to buy a new book. Remember, the publisher only makes money on selling brand new books and not used ones. Now, some schools are even publishing in house which makes it impossible to buy online or anywhere outside of the college/university.The easiest solution to avoid all this is to not buy from the campus bookstore but from private sellers locally or online. Second, buy the international edition if you can since it is basically the same as the regular hardcover textbook with a softcover and cheaper paper. Third, buy previous editions and just copy the problem sets from the new edition. There is no reason to buy new from the campus bookstore unless someone else is paying it for it i.e. a book scholarship.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Heresy, post: 1318022, member: 540683"] I only sell books back to the school when I can't get a decent return online. I bought some philosophy books for this class I took last semester, selling them online would maybe have netted me an extra $5-$10 at most. It wouldn't be worth the time and effort to list them, package them, and then ship them. Another time I bought a book for $15 (used) for a summer course and sold it back to the school for $13.50. However, the majority of the time, 30% is a great return if they even will buy them back for you. The whole textbook publishing business is a racket. Usually either the professor for the class or a member of the faculty makes you buy a book they are getting royalties off of. Then they purposely come out with a new edition every few years that is altered ever so slightly to justify making the entire class have to buy a new book. Remember, the publisher only makes money on selling brand new books and not used ones. Now, some schools are even publishing in house which makes it impossible to buy online or anywhere outside of the college/university. The easiest solution to avoid all this is to not buy from the campus bookstore but from private sellers locally or online. Second, buy the international edition if you can since it is basically the same as the regular hardcover textbook with a softcover and cheaper paper. Third, buy previous editions and just copy the problem sets from the new edition. There is no reason to buy new from the campus bookstore unless someone else is paying it for it i.e. a book scholarship. [/QUOTE]

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