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I'm really really lucky...the bookstore here on our campus is run by a student board, so they keep prices as low as feasibly possible, and try and keep as many used copies on hand as possible. Before the term starts, I print off the list of books needed from their website with all of their prices and double-check them against Amazon, Ebay, and half.com. I also look in the classifieds in the school paper and in the classifieds for our university forum to see if anyone's selling a used copy for cheap.
One thing I would like to do as a future business is start a textbook dealership online. I'd like to buy used textbooks from students for a fair and decent price and resell them for slightly more.
I sell my used/"new" textbooks online through Ebay--I've made at least $200 selling books that have become worthless to me. I also make more through Ebay than I would selling them back to the bookstore.
Notably, a lot of profs realize how much the books are costing you and will sometimes put a textbook on reserve in the library so you don't have to pay the $100+ for the book. Usually I wait until the first day of class to go buy my books to make sure I NEED the textbook.
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