<p>This discusses the costs of college textbooks.</p>
<p>Due the the outrageous cost of books, there had been a great rise in the number of used booksites on the web, as well as the continued opportunities to buy used books a many coillege bookstores, and informalaly between students (my s's college has a more formalized student bookswap system). My s. has been able to at times make a small a profit reselling many books he has purchased and used. </p>
<p>What really irks me is the production of a "new" edition of many HS books (we have to purchase the books for our private HS). The "new" math or science book may merely have a few problems changed, or the order reversed, in the back of each chapter. Thats ridiculous.</p>
<p>its rarely worth it to buy new. despite what the prof might say, there is really minimal difference between editions.</p>
<p>jym626,
I'm with you on the high school textbook issue. We are paying for two sets of HS textbooks. I spent hours online looking for the right web site to buy each book least expensively. I am still reluctant to buy used textbooks online because of the inability to see how much underlining/highlighting has been done.</p>
<p>My daughter sold one of her softback textbooks for $25. It had been heavily highlighted and underlined and we noted that in the listing. It also had at least three other college bookstore stickers on it. How it got from one bookstore to another I don't know.</p>