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Do comparison shopping for college textbooks online

August 27, 2007

Clark has one bit of advice for anyone who doesn't want to pay those hefty prices for college textbooks. His daughter's roommate spent $580 on books for class, while his daughter has to pay $135 for one book! Clark says to shop around for the books online.

CheapestBookPrice.com, AllBookstores.com, Biblio.com, AbeBooks.com, A1Books.com, BookFinder.com, ValoreBooks.com and Textbook411.com are all good sites for this purpose.

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Find more consumer advice in Clark Howard's book, "Get Clark Smart"

Amazon is also doing big business selling college text books, and there are some British book websites that offer science textbooks for about 40 percent off the domestic price (even when you factor in the cost of international shipping.)

Don't buy your books before class starts. Go the first day and ask your professor if you can buy a prior edition and try to find it used.


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