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After your first year (where parents are likely to be able to leand you a hand anyway), you can always "buy" your discount on the books that you need for the coming year by selling your existing books onto the next year's students. In fact, you can probably get between 1/2 and 2/3 of the cover price by doing so.

As one's likely to spend more with time (18 year-olds typically haven't had a large amount of money in their pocket as yet), the extra money will come in more useful in later years in any case!

If it's your first year, put up an advert saying that you're interested in buying books (list them). Expect to pay between 1/2 and 2/3 of the cover price, but then you have a hard copy! Given the end condition of a twice (or more!) used book, expect to sell it on for between 1/3 and 1/2 cover price when the time comes...
Posted by: Morosoph   Posted on: 08/10/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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33% off?  voska | 08/09/05
more bad news  specialk_z | 08/09/05
But wait, there's more  tic swayback | 08/09/05
I tried selling back a english text book  voska | 08/09/05
i remember those same things  Monkey_MCSE | 08/09/05
Not so much a racket  tic swayback | 08/09/05
Re: Not so much a racket  criderja | 08/10/05
Never, ever, ever  woot! | 08/10/05
Don't sell to the bookstore  tic swayback | 08/09/05
Yeah, wish Ebay had exist when I was in college  voska | 08/10/05
Why not  Yagotta B. Kidding | 08/09/05
I'd wait for the hack to come out  jfp | 08/09/05
I'll take a pass on that..  d_jedi | 08/09/05
Univ of Phoenix uses it too  bgiesler@... | 08/09/05
Yeah, well, UoP  Yagotta B. Kidding | 08/09/05
Are these idiots *serious*?  sehlat@... | 08/09/05
Project Gutenberg  jhsnider | 08/09/05
Welcome to even more comoditization of  Linux User 147560 | 08/09/05
WTF is wrong with you people?  vdraken | 08/10/05
Why are we not allowed to comment?  tic swayback | 08/10/05
I'd rather get the paper version  CobraA1 | 08/09/05
Second Hand Market  Morosoph | 08/10/05
This is a ripoff!  Uncoveror | 08/10/05
Co-op  Otto_Delete | 08/10/05
That's kind of illegal  tic swayback | 08/10/05
True, but what isn't?  MikeZD | 08/17/05
Re: Co-op  Uncoveror | 08/10/05
Sharing is certainly different from duplicating (nt)  tic swayback | 08/10/05
The Right To Read  ab@... | 08/10/05
First stop for an ebook should be  Update victim | 08/10/05
Not much of a solution  tic swayback | 08/10/05
How about digital books w/out expiration?  Perse | 08/10/05
Greed and fear  tic swayback | 08/10/05
Just 33%?  Centered | 08/13/05
"Intellectual Property" and the like  20075880200550981536805084989909-zdavis | 08/21/05
Pain in the Rear  simpsop | 08/11/05
DVD Jon  Boot_Agnostic | 08/11/05
e-books  Dr_Zinj | 08/15/05
Major Problems with this...  c45207 | 10/03/05
Is this possible also at universities in other countries?  marius_BinSols | 01/18/06

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