<p>Have any current/former students bought books from eBay or Amazon or something like that? would you recommend it or would you recommend buying from UCLA store?</p>
<p>also, how much can i expect to get back if i sell books back to the UCLA store? is it be possible to sell books back that were bought elsewhere?</p>
<p>I've read somewhere that UCLA will pay up to 50% of the retail price if they need the book you have that is in high demand. Otherwise, it's around 30% of the retail price.</p>
<p>If anything, you can sell it to B&N at around that rate as well.</p>
<p>I am wondering the same thing. To insure that the book u buy from Amazon matches with UCLA store, an ISBN is required. However the online UCLA textbook store does not tell u, and u can barely make out the whole title of the textbook (ie a lot of words are abbreviated). so as a result the burden is on us students... has anyone found a place where the ISBN can be known??</p>
<p>Yeah, that's very true. They don't even have anything listed for my cluster yet... so I'm not sure if I even need one for that.</p>
<p>I guess you can just walk in the UCLA Store, look for the book, and write down the ISBN.</p>
<p>im gonna call them to see if i can get the ISBN today.</p>
<p>ok so i called them and basically they said they cant give me the ISBN number cuz then i'd be able to order online. thats a pathetic excuse i thought cuz they are forcing u to buy their books for $160 avg compared to $60 on amazon (used). </p>
<p>the number to call is (310) 206-0791 for Ackerman Textbook Information. </p>
<p>lol im going to email them too. <a href="mailto:textbook@asucla.ucla.edu">textbook@asucla.ucla.edu</a></p>
<p>oh yeah it seems like they cant give u the ISBN number over the phone. but if u go in person they can. sucks for me i live in SF</p>
<p>I would strongly recommend getting the books off of Ebay, Amazon or Half.com. You can get even brand new books for half the price you'd get in the UCLA store. I was able to get a chemistry book along with a study guide and a solutions manual AND software all for $50 from Ebay, all in perfectly good condition. If you're looking for James Stewart's calculus book, there are hordes of them available. New ones are available on Ebay for cheaper prices than used ones from the UCLA store.</p>
<p>I haven't gone to my orientation yet. Do you think I'd have time to find out the ISBN from the book store before I leave? I live pretty far away and do not feel like wasting money on books when I don't need to.</p>
<p>so say we do buy the books from the ucla store...do we just wait arond until the first day? they said the lines would be horrendous at my orientation and i thought they said to try getting them online....</p>
<p>they meant online as in UCLA store's website. you can order them and, i believe, they will have them ready in your room by the time you move in.</p>
<p>yeah about the online bookstore.. theres an abbreviation that i Couldn't figure out. under the "Publisher" category, theres BD,ED,CP. I kno that ED means edition, and i think BD mean either hardcover or paperback, but what does CP mean?</p>
<p>Edit: o nvm i think its copyright year or something :-/ kodus to UCLA giving a puzzle.</p>
<p>Wow, do I feel dumb. Where on earth are you guys finding out which books you need? I've checked the textbook links on the course listings and the library's page. No info. Or are your teachers ahead of mine?</p>
<p>yep, textbook link from the class schedules from registrar.ucla.edu/schedules</p>
<p>it could be that they havent updated your courses yet...or that your courses dont require any textbooks! :p</p>
<p>Yep, that's where I'm getting mine. I don't think the info for clusters is listed.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>+characters</p>
<p>anyone taking 31A or 31B and know what Steward? Theres normal red one and theres green one titled Calculus: Early Transcendentals</p>
<p>I still can't figure out what the difference btwen the two books were. I looked up the official site and it didn't explain anything. Both have the same chapters and stuff... I'm clueless.</p>
<p>Westow, your going to want the red eddition, the green "Early Transcendentals" is preety much exactly the same, however the sections are in slightly a different order.</p>
<p>Just to give my comment a little bit of credibility, last year I took Calc at Cal Poly Pomona (I'm transfering this year) and my girlfriend, as well as a few other people I came to know, took it at UCLA, they all used the red book, while we used the Green book.</p>
<p>ooo Dustyb20 thanks a lot =P
dispersed all my worries</p>