Comments on: Saving Money On My Wife’s College Textbooks

By: 50+ Tips, Ideas, Resources on Saving Money for College Students — Broke Grad Student

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:01:27 +0000

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By: Endless Gibberish » Festival of Under 30 Finances

Endless Gibberish » Festival of Under 30 Finances — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:06:21 +0000

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By: Cool Plug In Alert - Book Burro Saves You Money While Book Shopping Online. | My Two Dollars

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:05:56 +0000

[...] Cool Plug In Alert – Book Burro Saves You Money While Book Shopping Online. By david Buying textbooks is not fun, let me tell you. We spent $252 on my wife’s textbooks this semester, and that was cheaper than normal. But buying other books is fun and we do buy some books that we want to own. Most books we read we get from the library, both to save money and to help the environment by not putting more paper out there in the wild. Plus, most books we would have no interest in reading again. But sometimes, you just gotta buy a book. [...]

By: david

david — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:27:20 +0000

I agree phantomdata…honestly I think textbooks should be included in the tuition. Making students fork over $250-$500 per semester for books is ridiculous! They dont have any money to begin with so how does this help them. No wonder there is rampant CC debt in college! (well, along with the pizza and beer, of course)

By: phantomdata

phantomdata — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:58:23 +0000

Man, I am still left wondering how in the hell textbook publishers get away with what they do. If I bought the same (content) book in the consumer sector it would be $50 at most. Yet, if it’s marketed to a college professor it suddenly becomes $150.