Friday, 9 March 2007

College Book Stores

By Josh Riverside

College bookstores can be found in most cities and inside college or university campuses. Using the Internet, one can find literally hundreds and thousands of online book stores. There is a wide variety of options and choices available to students all around the world.

The college textbook market is quite complicated with frequent fluctuations in pricing. Publishers are often accused of coming out with newer edition of books at unnecessary frequencies, which students feel is a deliberate act to make the older versions obsolete. This allegation is refuted by the publishers who feel that they are providing the most current information, by coming out with frequent revisions. Publishers and college book stores are dependent on each for their survival, with each one of them being in the market for making money.

In addition to books, one can find extra materials in the form of CDs in college book stores. Since CDs are cheap to produce and can store vast information, they are becoming popular options, replacing paper text books. Teaching professionals have welcomed such tools, which provide great information to their students. Most of the publishers also have a bundled offer along with college text books in the form of CDs or certain Web resources that can be accessed with the help of the disks.

Many college book stores also sell custom versions of textbooks written by certain professors or meant for only certain universities. There are many college book stores which deal with used books. Students generally sell their books to these book stores, when they are done with the classes. The stores, in turn, sell the used books at a discount to students who will be taking the class the following semester.

It is easy to locate college bookstores. They are all over, on university campuses or they could even be in your neighborhood. Alternately, you can get your books from online stores, which stock thousands of books. Online bookstores, too, have bundled offers and discounts from time to time.

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