| If you are in college right now you are probably | | | | until the school's book store refuses to buy back |
| getting ready to go spend a few hundred dollars on | | | | certain books. If you are lucky your teacher will base |
| books for this coming semester. Hopefully you have | | | | his or her course on material that is covered in both |
| noticed how expensive these books are. The college | | | | old and new editions, and you can pick up an old |
| book store's prices are high! The worst part about it | | | | edition from a friend for a relatively cheap price. |
| is that they buy books back from students for next | | | | Some college students care enough to get their |
| to nothing, and they sell them for triple what they | | | | books somewhere else like EBay or Amazon. Other |
| paid for them. | | | | students just cannot refuse the low cash offer for |
| Another tactic used by the book stores to make | | | | their valuable books at the end of the term. Students |
| more money is to sell the new volume of the | | | | could save more money if they use some kind of |
| required text. This means that the students who | | | | book exchange service that is non-profit. Although |
| have the old volumes are stuck with a book that | | | | for the time being sites like Amazon and EBay will |
| they cannot sell, and the next round of students | | | | suffice. College students need to utilize their |
| must buy the ridiculously over-priced new edition. This | | | | networks to do something about getting ripped off |
| usually happens without warning and is not known | | | | every semester. |