Re: Old School Book
Posted by:
Lester Burnham
()
Date: November 19, 2007 07:52AM
Bookworm Wrote:
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> Depending on how old they are, I'd suggest at
> least trying to give them away.
> I wish you luck though. The business of college
> textbooks is a racket and most
> schools constantly gouge students/parents by
> switching texts frequently. I kept
> a lot of mine for years thinking they may come in
> handy for reference. Then
> came the Internet and they became dust catchers.
> There are some churches that
> send books to third world countries. You might
> consider that too.
The church suggestion is a good one that I had not thought of, but I don't know how you would find an interested group. A Google search for "buy used textbooks" will give you a bunch of sites, but you need to enter the ISBN to find out a) whether they have a market for this text and b) how much they will give you. In the end, it might just cover the shipping cost.
The reality, however, is that a textbook more than 2-3 years old is going to be practically unsellable even for topics that don't really change that much like accounting and statistics.