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Re: Tools: A less-expensive way to purchase textbooks?
Subject:Re: Tools: A less-expensive way to purchase textbooks? From:"Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:58:09 -0700
"Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA> wrote in message news:217366 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> Just spotted an interesting article on the New York Times Web site (you
will
> need to set up a login name and password before you can see the article):
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/21/education/21BOOK.html
>
> According to the article, you can often purchase college textbooks
overseas
> (e.g., in the U.K.) for well below domestic prices, even including
shipping.
> This is obviously relevant for any parent trying to fund their child's
> college education, but the tie-in for us is that this may also be true for
> certain computer or software books and for other books related to the
> writing and editing professions (particularly if those books are also sold
> overseas). Worth a look!
>
While I've not wanted to wait for overseas shipping (or pay overseas
shipping costs, assuming both come into play when ordering from overseas
sites), I havne't bought a textbook for classes in a school bookstore in
quite some time.
I don't work for either place, so I'll just recommend bestbookbuys.com as a
lace to start a search. I end up buying almost all my technical books at
bookpool.com, where I save an average of 1/3 off the cover price.
For a design class a couple of years ago, I found the text on half.com very
cheaply. I made the purchase, and in the ensuing email exchange between me
and the buyer, we discovered that he lived nearby, and so he just brought
the book by one evening when he was traveling through the neighborhood.
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