As if college wasn’t expensive and frustrating enough, students are forced to deal with the increasing cost of textbooks. Textbooks are overpriced and they become obsolete with every new edition that comes out. You shouldn’t have to deal with the battle of textbooks when you’re bat...

This book racket is a huge problem, but there are a lot of alternatives to the traditional approach to buying textbooks and selling them back for not nearly what they are worth. Digital textbooks You’ve all heard of the Kindle right? It’s a very cool gadget that has digital copies of boo...

The Retirement Guru says… you could buy textbooks at half price… International Editions. What are they? International Editions are just what they say they are. They are the editions of the textbooks that are designed to be sold internationally. To learn about how the textbook industry wo...

Now, we’ve written about how to reduce the amount of money you spend on textbooks before, and even what happens to each dollar that gets spent on textbooks, but this announcement is one of the first political steps taken towards reducing those costs. If you live in Ohio, then you’re in ...

Textbooks: They’re high priced, we don’t have a choice usually but to buy them, and they suck. Don’t worry about them too much though. Here are some tips to help you minimize the pain and potentially maximize your gain when it comes to college textbooks: 1.  Ask the teacher if the...

The best part about school letting out is that we don’t have to pay for textbooks, and the worst part about school starting up is paying for textbooks. Why are textbooks so expensive? On my campus, we have two book stores: The university book store, and an independent, “off-campus”...