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<p>If we buy college books online can we ship them straight to our dorm room?</p>
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I’ll wait for another week :)</p>
<p>you can sign up for a year of free amazon prime with your student EDU address</p>
<p>How important is it to have the 10th edition with MasteringChemistry? I found an old 9th edition without MasteringChemistry for $10, and I don’t see what the fuss for the latest edition is all about.</p>
<p>If your professor specifies an edition, you’re probably better off getting that edition.</p>
<p>another question:</p>
<p>does an international edition really differ from any other type?</p>
<p>If I’m not mistaken, you can’t sell back international editions of books to the Cornell Store (if you’re interested in sale).</p>
<p>i recommend buying US edition if you are trying to sell</p>
<p>Even if the Cornell Store list states that a book is “required”, professors sometimes NEVER even use it for assignments or on exams. So unless you know the textbook is required, wait til you get the syllabus and sit in a few classes before buying the textbook. </p>
<p>For example: If you are taking Introduction to Chemistry 1560 (Chem for Non-Majors) and its with Stephen Lee, buying the textbook will be useless and a waste of money as most of the material he teaches will come from his “own notes” and most of the time has no relevance to the textbook. So basically, do some background research of the professors, ask friends who took the class you will be taking for advice and tips with regards to textbooks.</p>
<p>Best way is to borrow books from previous student who took the class. Getting international versions is also another way to save BIG, but just make sure you flip to the right page when doing assignments as page numbers will be different.</p>
<p>Always search ISBN’s when searching for your book. Titles are useless, ISBN’s (the ISBN-13 is usually best) gets you the exact edition required by the professor, and always get the exact edition required, at least in engineering! The only differences between editions are the problems, and all of them will be completely different. Usually no, or very minor textual/content additions are made. Any edition will work for learning, however all homework’s will be assigned problems, and older editions will be useless here. If you really want to save money, you could get an older edition, then go to the library and scan every homework problem required from the syllabus. Libraries do stock one or two copies of the newest edition of textbooks, but they can only be checked out for ~2 hours.</p>
<p>International editions and Hardcover editions are exactly the same. The only difference is the international edition is softcovered vs hardcover. All content is on the same page numbers and the problems are the same. </p>
<p>There is a sellback value difference, though, and international editions have almost none. If you plan to sell back your textbooks after each semester or year, try and look for the cheapest copy of a hardcover edition. You can buy a hardcover from somewhere online, then sell it back to the cornell store during their buy-back at the end of each semester, they don’t care you did not buy it from them originally. Usually you can make out with the Cornell store buying it back for 60-80% of what you payed for it. If you’re crafty on ebay, you can get back almost all the money you spent.</p>
<p>If you want to keep your books afterwards, then by all means go international edition. as they are usually more than 50% cheaper than hardcover versions. The cornell store does not buy IE’s back, though, be forewarned. You can still try and sell them back on ebay, but they depreciate more than hardcover editions.</p>