<p>for those who already have Amazon Prime, is there a reason that you wouldn’t just add your student to your existing account? That’s what I was planning to do (and set up a PayPhrase for her to use for ordering).</p>
<p>That sounds like a plan…for those of us without amazon prime accounts of our own, the free student one is a deal.</p>
<p>It looks like all textbooks that are offered for a good price are not eligible for free shipping. Those that are, however, cost almost the same as at a bookstore</p>
<p>Books sold by third-party sellers through Amazon Marketplace are not eligible, but the books sold by Amazon should be… at least all the books I looked at.</p>
<p>I appreciate free two-day shipping even though I am not planning to buy my textbooks from Amazon. There’s enough other stuff I order from Amazon.</p>
<p>Shipping address doesn’t have to match the school. I have like four different shipping addresses listed and none of them at the moment are even in the same city as my school.</p>
<p>This won’t help me for textbooks since I generally buy them from the marketplace, but when school starts I end up buying a lot of other stuff from amazon. It’s too hard to get stuff home on the bus so I do as much of my shopping online as I can.</p>
<p>Look for the used textbooks and you will generally do better than your on-campus bookstore. I have bought college and hs textbooks and had universally good experiences.</p>
<p>Can anyone who has signed up for this tell if a student can add family members – for example, a married student? I’m a student, so instead of renewing our household membership in the fall, I may take the free student membership. I just have to figure out what my .edu account address is, since I never use it.</p>
<p>Hi im a student (incoming freshman) and happened upon this topic. My dad has a Prime account but I still joyfully got my free account anyways. 
thanks so much for sharing!!!</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. I am one of those old fogey students at a junior college so i will sign up for that (I assume there is no age restriction)!!</p>
<p>TrinSF, you cannot add family members to the Amazon Student account. However, you can create payphrases that are linked to different payment methods and shipping addresses. You could set up a payphrase for each family member!</p>
<p>mmmm…thanks for mentioning payphrases…I’ll be looking into that!</p>
<p>My husband is going back to grad school this fall, he is also looking at getting textbooks through Amazon…we’ll definitely look at this…</p>
<p>I will also be in grad school this Fall but in the past most of my Amazon orders were from 3rd party sellers, I got deep discounts for almost new books. Would it still be worth it if you did that since they don’t cover them?</p>
<p>It’s worth it to get the books from amazon even if you can’t use amazon prime. I get my books new or like new for half and sometimes even a third of the price for USED books at the bookstore.</p>
<p>I tell you how awful I am – if there’s a book we’re using for part of a semester and I am having problems affording it, I will purchase from Amazon, and then return it if we end up not using much of it, or we get done before the 30 days. I don’t do this all the time; it’s just one of my strategies for saving money on books. I also use book rental (Chegg and other sites), Amazon Marketplace for deeply discounted used textbooks, and the library. I’ve already ordered two $70+ books for the fall semester from Marketplace, they were used copies for under $10 each. </p>
<p>I also will sometimes order more than one used copy if they’re very affordable and I’m worried they’re not going to be a good quality. When they arrive, I keep the nicest one for myself and offer the other one to a classmate who needs it.</p>