What to do with recently purchased textbooks?
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Good for you for trying to learn outside the classroom.  I'll be honest, though.  You can't blame this one on the companies.  Many teachers don't want the answers available for their students to copy, so the companies have to keep them private.  Check the publishers' websites, and contact them to see if they will help you.  If not, see if you can get a teacher at the appropriate level to help you with this, or at least to check your answers.
297351
It's not in stock on any online textbook resalers, either.  Campusbooks.com and Amazon.com both "know" what the book is by the ISBN, not have none in stock.  All of the other popular online sites (eCampus, Classbook, StudentMarket) don't even have it listed.  Sorry.  Maybe the instructor of your class can help you...
195085
In grade school, most books are paid for by the school system in which you attended school. In college, teachers don't get paid by the government, so they don't get money for these books. I know if I were a college professor, I'd hate to pay for books for all of my students (many textbooks are upwards of $100)! And thus, the responsiblity falls upon you (or your checkbook, as the case may be). \n\nBut there is still hope! Many college bookstores will sell used copies of college textbooks for a great deal less money. If you can put up with somebody's dog-ears and margin notes, I'd try that avenue.
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www.bestbookdeal.com is the best place to look because it compiles searches from all the major textbook sellers, lists the price and the condition. I use it every semester.\n\nIt in itself is not a book seller but it leads you to seller's websites such as Amazon (and Amazon Marketplace), Half.com, TextbookX, and more.
847102
Buying books online is the best. I buy nearly all my books online. A method that has worked for me is to buy the books I need to read right away for the first two weeks of class at the U bookstore (or find out if the book is in the library and go there to do the necessary reading) and then buy all the rest on Amazon.com. Buying used books from Amazon's independent "marketplace" sellers is usually significantly cheaper than buying the books in any store (shipping for any one book from a seller is $3.99; often you'll find mass-market paperbacks, some in excellent condition, selling for just a penny, so some of these you can get for as cheap as $4). And if you decide to buy your books new from Amazon (which is still always cheaper than buying them new from the store), shipping is free with purchases of more than $25.\n\nA website called BookHQ (www.bookhq.com) will actually compare for you the prices of books from virtually all the used-book search engines on the Internet. It's super-great.
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supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book
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Also check half.com\nOverstock.com and walmart.com also have good deals on new books.\nMake sure you search by the ISBN and not the title
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Dear purchase some books containing questions of last 10/15 yrs also some books containing some questions.
839354
The best way you can resolve it is to walk into a Barnes and Noble or some other book store that stocks them and check it out. You can also e-mail the publisher.  My guess is that they have different contents. Good luck!\n\ncc
3261
I agree about checking out Ebay and looking at completed listings.\n\nYou could also get an estimate from an antique book dealer - check Yahoo Yellow Pages for your local area.\n\nOr check out Bookfinder and plug in the title of your book. It will give you an idea what dealers are charging for your titles.
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Go to the school and ask for a copy
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Hi.\n\nI really recommend setting up a seller account at Amazon.com.  It's VERY easy to do and then you have a lot of control over the price your book gets.  By entering in the textbook ISBN, you'll also know if there's any current demand for your book (e.g. if there are a ton of texts at a low price, just donate the book; you probably won't get a decent buyer worth your effort).\n\nAlthough Amazon.com charges a commission, they also give you a shipping concession (amount varies, but generally $3-$5 per book).  If you ship media mail, you can generally make a little money on the shipping, too.  Besides, even though you pay Amazon a commission, you still generally come out ahead over the campus bookstores.\n\nBy the way, selling books on Amazon.com is exactly what services like textbook411 and cash4books do, too.  (You can also try half.com and bigwords.com.)\n\nI've sold textbooks on Amazon pretty quickly.  Generally, I have them only in my possession (after listing) for 3-5 days.  Depending on the time of year (summer is generally slow), I may have them longer, but it's okay.  Eventually they sell and I get much more than I would've otherwise.\n\nFinally, as a last resort, don't throw your books away.  You can donate and ship them for free where the texts will benefit third world countries and literacy programs.  Visit http://www.betterworldbooks.com/bigwordsmrs/ for more information.\n\nI highly recommend it!
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You can go to E-BAY and look but I found one on there for mine at about $5.oo as lots of other books that are old too
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Your college/university bookstore
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Ask your professor before you buy anything. They may assign specific homework problems that aren't in the edition you plan to use.
941409
Try looking on e-bay for the edition and copy...usually an ISBN number is listed for the book if it for sale there...good chance....\n\nAlso ...did you know that the ISBN system is soon to run out of available numbers and they will change over to 13 digits from the present 10?
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If the person doing the rebinding holds the copyright to the 1999 book, then there's nothing wrong with it, particularly if it is not an exactly identical book. Textbook makers do this very often. They come out with new editions all the time, even though very little changes.