Sources for textbooks: buy, sell, rent, trade

More options to refer our students to when they can’t find it here or at the campus bookstore:

Valore Books (megasite) — http://www.valorebooks.com/

Cheap Textbooks (search engine) — http://cheapbooks.com/

Cheap Textbooks (search engine) — http://www.cheap-textbooks.com/

Chegg (rent, buy, sell — they’ll plant a tree for each book you rent) — http://www.chegg.com/

Abe Books (can enter up to 10 ISBNs at once) — http://www.abebooks.com/

Book Renter (the name says it all) — http://www.bookrenter.com/

Textbooks.com (free shipping on orders over $25) — http://www.textbooks.com/

Alibris (we all know this one — they have new/used textbooks, too) — http://www.alibris.com/

Campus Books (rent, buy, sell — includes Subject searching) — http://www.campusbooks.com/

BookSwim (Netflix type book rental) — http://www.bookswim.com/index.html

Text Swap (buy, sell, trade — can search by university) — http://www.textswap.com/

FaceBook Marketplace (log in, go to Marketplace, search by title)

Half.com, eBay, Kijiji — Kijiji (http://www.ebayclassifieds.com/) is a subsidiary of eBay with local classified ads

Bartleby (if it’s in the public domain, students might find it free and online here) — http://www.bartleby.com/

List originally compiled by Merritt College Library (Oakland)