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But e-textbooks have their benefits. College textbook costs rose 87.5 percent between 2006 and 2016, outpacing even tuition and fee increases, according to the. The undergraduate students at four-year, in-state schools for the 2016-2017 school year budget as much as $1,250 a year for books and supplies., a public interest research group, finds that '65 percent of students said that they had decided against buying a textbook because it was too expensive' and 82 percent believe they'd do better if the textbook was free online. Switching to open-source books can save as much as $128 per course, according to, or as much as. Some specifically to cut costs by using open education resources, maybe even bundling the cost of texts with the tuition.
The difference between open and regular e-texts is that while e-text from big publishers may be cheaper, they still have lots of rules and limitations; open texts are much more affordable and accessible, but not necessarily vetted by the admins and educators. Services specializing in open texts and courses include,. It doesn't help when major textbook publishers pursue practices they say are to prevent counterfeit textbooks, but. Some have even sued students who legally bought physical textbooks overseas and brought them to the US—but thankfully even SCOTUS didn't side with that ridiculousness. Publishers are feeling the scorn. Pearson, one of the major textbook publishers, had. Wiley had similar issues due to.
(Both have launched online libraries and courses as a solution.) So maybe it's time to ditch the papyrus books for good. Just about every student has a tablet or or laptop along with their smartphones; all feel the pinch of higher costs. It's clearly the (inexpensive) e-textbook's time. So where does a thrifty student go to get the ebooks he or she needs at prices that won't deplete all the funds for beer cultural events on campus?
The key is to shop around. Not every online book store has every single obscure text you may need or desire, especially in an electronic edition, so embrace multiple platforms and apps to save money. That's because there are several major vendors vying to be your digital college bookstore of choice. Here's where to go to get the digital-based tomes that will teach. The Big Stores Amazon There are a number of ways to save on a wide selection of e-textbooks with Amazon's Kindle platform. First, join, an analog of Amazon Prime that's free for the first six months and then $49 per year—that's half the price of Prime. This membership provides free two-day shipping, access to streaming movies and TV and music, and—of course—discounts on many print textbooks: up to 40 percent off some new print books, up to 90 percent off some used books, and up to 70 percent off some.
If you go with, it's 80 percent off the list price on rentals for 30 days, which you can extend any time; there are seven-day trials on purchases. Students can also their print textbooks back to Amazon, even if they were purchased elsewhere, for up to 80 percent of the purchase price. E-textbooks can also be. Amazon's e-textbooks for the Kindle platform on iPads, iPhones, Android devices, Mac and Windows PCs, and any Kindle device (preferably the color Kindle Fires, as the e-ink screen of standard Kindles may not be as easy to read if it's a full-color book). There's also an 'Xray for Kindle' feature on some books—a 'smart glossary' that provides links to extra content—and a flash cards feature to quiz yourself.
You have seven days to return a Kindle e-textbook and the list of publishers is comprehensive. Amazon isn't just waiting for students to come to its site, however. The mega-retailer has also taken to helping the stores at several colleges with websites that provide limited same-day delivery of more than just books. They've also set up 'pickup center' lockers at some campuses, and a few even have full physical stores: was Amazon's first staffed college store location in 2015, but it's since expanded to 17 others, though some are pick-up only spots for online orders. Some campuses are doing away with bookstore locations; for example, SUNY Stony Brook at all anymore in its store—it sends students to Amazon.com.
Apple iBooks Apple works with major textbook publishers Houghton Mifflin, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson, plus some open-source providers like OpenStax, to offer textbooks on the iPad, sold via iBooks or iTunes. Because it's Apple, e-textbooks made with the get extras like image galleries and fully rendered 3D images, but those are the exception. All e-textbooks on iPad get the ability to take notes and highlight passages and share with your fellow students. Apple also provides, another little iPad-centric educational resource that allows teachers to —and students—from the tablet. Everything needed for class is put in the hands of an iPad-wielding student (the also works on iPhone). Google Play Google sells books to Android users via Google Play, so it makes sense it would get into as well. Google has titles from the biggest educational publishers, including Houghton-Mifflin, Cengage, Wiley, Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Macmillan.
Select e-textbooks are rentable. Users are promised savings up to 80 percent off print prices (usually when renting), and can access the titles on any Android device using the, on, or on a. Barnes & Noble. Chegg's e-textbooks are readable on the web for desktop or via Chegg's apps for.
It will even give you seven days of reading the e-textbook version of a physical book you've purchased while you wait for delivery. It also hosts test prep for the ACT and SAT, offers a scholarship search engine, and provides via text, audio, and video, to help with 'homework' and assist in locating internships. VitalSource (once called CourseSmart) has a great selection of, a big selection that it claims encompasses 90 percent of the core books used in higher ed, and prices up to 70 percent lower than the print versions when renting.
The apps allow you to read offline, and most e-textbooks look identical to the print versions. CourseSmart was originally co-founded by major textbooks makers Cengage, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, MacMillan, and John Wiley & Sons, then integrated with the at over 100 institutions. It was then acquired by VitalSource Technologies (hence the name change), which is itself owned by Ingram Content Group, which also works with Chegg. With the best URL ever for selling textbooks, both print and digital, is for one thing and one thing only. It offers free shipping on orders of $25 and over, claims a warehouse of 10 million new and used tomes in stock, 30-day return policy, and book buy-backs a plenty. A '50 percent cash back' guarantee on some texts will always get you at least half the amount at buy-back—print and e-textbooks.
It also promises you'll be able to read it on any device, be it a phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop, using readers created by Textbooks.com or others. The one thing they don't offer: rentals. RedShelf The books from are electronic-only. They offer a cloud reader for browsers that works on any platform, so your book is available anywhere—and you can still highlight passages or create flashcards. Whether you can read it offline or not is up to the publisher, but it's possible.
CampusBooks You don't buy from. The site is a comparison shopping engine that helps you find the cheapest text or e-text from 8 million titles found across a lot of book sellers.
It offers a buy versus rent tool to help you decide which is best for your book-buying situation. It will even search local libraries to see if there is a free version you can borrow.
Apps for iOS and Android will help you find bargains while mobile. Direct Textbook If looks similar to CampusBooks, that's because it's also a search engine for eligible texts to buy and rent, plus helps you sell used books. It has the added advantage of also from the major providers. It does a multi-book search—enter all the ISBNs for all the books needed, and Direct Textbook can show a combine low price across stores, or with a single preferred store.