Shopping - Consumer Reports News: College students shopping for used textbooks online this semester should first check out Amazon. In Consumer Reports' first-ever college-textbook shopping test of five popular websites for college textbooks, Amazon's used-textbook prices were consistently low. Barnes & Noble generally posted higher prices for used textbooks.
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The big question with regard to the comparative prices of the used books is what condition are the books. It doesn’t do you much good to buy a $6 textbook only to have it with water damage or covered in someone else’s notes. Unlike in Harry Potter, someone else’s notes may not be useful and may in fact be rather confusing, as you may wish to take your own notes in the textbook instead. I do have to wonder what it is about textbooks that make them so expensive. While I understand that yes, they do have a lot of pages, there are other, nontextbooks with similar amount of pages that can be bought for much cheaper. So I wonder if the enormous increase in price is just to cover the printing costs, or if it is due to a large markup for some reason.
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