Finding cheap textbooks is a big challenge to many students. With the price of textbooks rising every year, it's rather difficult to find books that helps students save on their book allowances. What's worse is reselling your originally $100 worth textbook could only get you $10-$15 or even less. Call it your yearly devotion to college exploitation.
The fact still remains that textbooks prices rises around 6% every year which obviously is twice as high as the rate of the inflation recorded from the year 1998 to 2004.
But just like the rest of us, we do not need to spend much on textbooks. There are many resources out there that will help you get through college without shelling out too much from your pocket.
The recent move by the Federal Government in July 2010 has made it easier for school teachers and students to save money on textbooks. The students are no longer required to buy bundled books and should be given the option to buy them separately. Also, schools are now required by law to give students the information on the kind of textbooks required for the school year and give them time to shop for books before the classes start.
Some of the really useful places to visit on the web is Google Books. The site holds a large database of free books, scanned and stored in there. There are some books that will only allow you to view around 10-20 pages and purchase it as a reasonable price should you wish to get access to the entire book. Still other authors took copyright out of their works and include it to the open source textbooks list.
FlatWorld Knowledge, a company dedicated to offering open source textbooks online, has made it possible to drive the prices of some textbooks. Most of resources they have on the site are free and are accessible using a desktop or mobile computer such as tablets and smartphones. Others are downloadable, like eTextbooks, at a cheap price of $20 to $40 or request for the printed version for the same price.
CourseSmart.com is another site you can use for downloadable textbooks. You can access them using your computer tablets or smartphones and read them anywhere.
There are still many sites out there that supports open source textbooks and this post will be updated as we find interesting sources out there that are worth mentioning.
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